卷
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scroll; book; volume; chapter; examination paper; classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #697 U+5377
How 卷 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A curled up scroll 㔾
components: 龹 㔾
How to remember it
exam paper · Heisig RSH #2447
quarter + fingerprint
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 卷 as their sound component
These characters all use 卷 (juàn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 卷 sound component | 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 |
Words containing 卷
| 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 |
| 卷地皮 | juǎn dì pí | to plunder the land and extort from the peasant; corrupt practice |
| 自然卷 | zì rán juǎn | natural curls; natural wave |
| 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) |