眷
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(bound form) one's family, esp. wife and children; (literary) to regard with love and affection; to feel concern for
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 目 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 眷
- Common rank
- #2,417
- Unicode
- U+7737
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
dependents · Heisig RSH #984
quarter + eyeball
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 眷
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有情人终成眷属 | love will find a way (idiom) | |
| 终成眷属 | see 有情人終成眷屬|有情人终成眷属[you3 qing2 ren2 zhong1 cheng2 juan4 shu3] | |
| 眷区 | married quarters; residential quarters for men with families | |
| 家眷 | one's wife and children | |
| 眷眷之心 | nostalgia; home-sickness; longing for departed beloved | |
| 携家带眷 | to take all one's family along (idiom); encumbered by a family; tied down by family obliga… | |
| 内眷 | the females in a family; womenfolk | |
| 女眷 | the females in a family; womenfolk | |
| 眷爱 | to love; sentimentally attached to | |
| 亲眷 | relatives | |
| 眷属 | family member; husband and wife | |
| 眷念 | to think fondly of | |
| 眷注 | to think fondly of sb | |
| 眷怀 | to yearn for; to miss | |
| 眷恋 | to miss; to long for; to remember with longing; yearning | |
| 眷顾 | to care for; to show concern for; to think longingly (of one's country) | |
| 眷村 | military dependents' village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and… | |
| 携眷 | accompanied by one's dependents; encumbered by wife and children | |
| 侨眷 | family members of nationals residing abroad |
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 |
| 拳 | fist; various forms of boxing | |
| 券 | bond, certificate, deed; ticket; contract | |
| 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 |