挽
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
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How 挽 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 免 (phonetic, miǎn)
How to remember it
tow · Heisig RSH #2888
fingers + hare
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 免
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 免 (miǎn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 免 sound component | miǎn | to spare, to excuse from; to evade |
| 冕 | miǎn | crown; ceremonial cap |
| 勉 | miǎn | to endeavor, to make an effort; to urge |
| 谗 | chán | to slander, to defame; to misrepresent |
| 娩 | miǎn | childbirth, labor |
| 絻 | wèn | mourning veil |
| 浼 | měi | to request, to ask a favor; to pollute, to contaminate |
Words containing 挽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不可挽回 | bù kě wǎn huí | irreversible |
| 无可挽回 | wú kě wǎn huí | irrevocable; the die is cast |
| 挽力 | wǎn lì | pulling power (of draft animals) |
| 挽回 | wǎn huí | to retrieve; to redeem |
| 挽词 | wǎn cí | an elegy; elegiac words |
| 挽联 | wǎn lián | pair of parallel verses inscribed on streamers, used as funeral decoration |
| 推挽 | tuī wǎn | to push and pull; to move sth forward by shoving and pulling |
| 挽留 | wǎn liú | to urge to stay; to detain |
| 挽近 | wǎn jìn | old variant of 晚近[wan3 jin4] |
| 挽歌 | wǎn gē | a dirge; an elegy |
| 力挽狂澜 | lì wǎn kuáng lán | to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis |
| 挽具 | wǎn jù | harness |
| 挽额 | wǎn é | elegiac tablet |
| 挽救 | wǎn jiù | to save; to remedy; to rescue |
| 挽辞 | wǎn cí | an elegy; elegiac words |
| 挽诗 | wǎn shī | elegy |
| 挽尊 | wǎn zūn | (neologism) (slang) to salvage a bit of dignity (abbr. for 挽回尊嚴|挽回尊严[wan3 hui2 zun1 yan2]) |
| 挽幛 | wǎn zhàng | large elegiac scroll |