卷

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scroll; book; volume; chapter; examination paper; classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll

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Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A curled up scroll 㔾

Components 龹㔾

exam paper · Heisig RSH #2447

quarter + fingerprint

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
死海经卷	Sǐ hǎi jīng juàn	Dead Sea Scrolls
死海古卷	Sǐ hǎi gǔ juàn	Dead Sea Scrolls
水龙卷	shuǐ lóng juǎn	waterspout (meteorology)
卷发器	juǎn fà qì	hair curler
读万卷书，行万里路	dú wàn juàn shū , xíng wàn lǐ lù	(lit.) read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom); (fig.) acquire knowl…
自来卷	zì lái juǎn	natural curls; natural wave
卷土重来	juǎn tǔ chóng lái	lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom); fig. to regroup and come back even stronger; to…
书卷气	shū juàn qì	scholarly flavor; educated appearance
卷线器	juǎn xiàn qì	fishing reel
龙卷风	lóng juǎn fēng	tornado; hurricane; twister; cyclone
自然卷	zì rán juǎn	natural curls; natural wave
卷地皮	juǎn dì pí	to plunder the land and extort from the peasant; corrupt practice
卷心菜	juǎn xīn cài	cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:棵[ke1])
卷心菜	juǎn xīn cài	variant of 卷心菜[juan3 xin1 cai4]
行万里路胜读万卷书	xíng wàn lǐ lù shèng dú wàn juàn shū	to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books
卷子	juǎn zi	steamed roll; spring roll
卷子	juàn zi	test paper; examination paper
中卷	zhōng juǎn	adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in the shape of a…
黑卷尾	hēi juǎn wěi	(bird species of China) black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)
小卷	xiǎo juǎn	young squid (Tw)

These characters use 卷 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
卷 sound part	juàn	book, scroll, volume; curled up; to curl, to roll
圈	quān	circle, ring, loop; to encircle
惓	quán	candid, sincere; careful, earnest
绻	quǎn	attached, inseparable, in love
锩	juàn	to bend iron