(juàn)

HSK 48 strokes
Readingsjuànjuǎn

to roll up

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Character information

Pinyin
juàn / juǎn
Meaning
to roll up; (fig.) to sweep up; to engulf; to drag into (a situation); (slang) to compete to an unhealthy degree; hypercompetitive; a roll; classifier for small rolled-up things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 4
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

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Ideograph⿱龹㔾

A curled up scroll 㔾

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Words with

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juànzi
HSK 7-9

steamed roll

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wènjuàn
HSK 7-9

questionnaire

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juàn
HSK 7-9

to be drawn into

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zhōngjuàn

adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in…

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jiāojuàn

to hand in one's examination script

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nèijuàn

(embryology) to involute; involution; (neologism c. 2017) (of a society) to…

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lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom)

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