挽
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to pull; to draw (a cart or a bow); to roll up; to coil; to carry on the arm; to lament the dead; (fig.) to pull against; to recover
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 手 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 挽
- Common rank
- #2,465
- Unicode
- U+633D
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
tow · Heisig RSH #2888
fingers + hare
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 挽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不可挽回 | irreversible | |
| 无可挽回 | irrevocable; the die is cast | |
| 挽力 | pulling power (of draft animals) | |
| 挽回 | to retrieve; to redeem | |
| 挽词 | an elegy; elegiac words | |
| 挽联 | pair of parallel verses inscribed on streamers, used as funeral decoration | |
| 推挽 | to push and pull; to move sth forward by shoving and pulling | |
| 挽留 | to urge to stay; to detain | |
| 挽近 | old variant of 晚近[wan3 jin4] | |
| 挽歌 | a dirge; an elegy | |
| 力挽狂澜 | to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis | |
| 挽具 | harness | |
| 挽额 | elegiac tablet | |
| 挽救 | to save; to remedy; to rescue | |
| 挽辞 | an elegy; elegiac words | |
| 挽诗 | elegy | |
| 挽尊 | (neologism) (slang) to salvage a bit of dignity (abbr. for 挽回尊嚴|挽回尊严[wan3 hui2 zun1 yan2]) | |
| 挽幛 | large elegiac scroll |
Sound family
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