拳
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fist; boxing
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 手 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 拳
- Common rank
- #1,044
- Unicode
- U+62F3
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
boxing · Heisig RSH #985
quarter + 手 hand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 拳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拳头产品 | flagship product; star product | |
| 义和拳 | the Righteous and Harmonious Fists; the Boxers (history) | |
| 八法拳 | Ba Fa Quan "Eight Methods" - Martial Art | |
| 龙形拳 | Long Xing Quan - "Dragon Fist" - Martial Art | |
| 形意拳 | Xingyiquan (Chinese martial art) | |
| 拳脚相向 | to square off; to exchange blows; to rain blows on sb | |
| 赤手空拳 | (idiom) with one's bare hands (unarmed – also figuratively: without assistance) | |
| 罗汉拳 | Luohan Quan (Shaolin kung fu style) | |
| 拳头 | fist; (of a product, service, project etc) flagship; key; core | |
| 组合拳 | a combination of punches; (fig.) a set of measures | |
| 拳击手 | boxer | |
| 花拳 | showy boxing of no practical use; see 花拳繡腿|花拳绣腿 | |
| 拳手 | boxer | |
| 黑虎拳 | Hei Hu Quan - "Black Tiger Fist" - Martial Art | |
| 长拳 | Changquan - Northern Shaolin (北少林) - Longfist - Martial Art | |
| 拳法 | boxing; fighting technique | |
| 拳击选手 | boxer | |
| 出拳 | to throw a punch | |
| 拳击手套 | boxing glove | |
| 打拳 | to do shadowboxing |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 龹 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 龹 sound part | — | Form of 卷 used as a phonetic component |
| 券 | bond, certificate, deed; ticket; contract | |
| 眷 | to take an interest in; to care for | |
| 豢 | domestic animal; to feed, to raise | |
| 誊 | to copy, to transcribe | |
| 弮 | a repeating crossbow | |
| 飬 | to offer a sacrifice | |
| 鲞 | dried fish | |
| 劵 | certificate, ticket; title deed |