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Hanzi Character Search: 挽

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挽
pull; pull back, draw back
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 7 Total Strokes 10
Mandarin reading wǎn Cantonese reading waan5
Japanese on reading ban Japanese kun reading hiku
Korean reading man Vietnamese reading
Traditional Variant(s) mourn; pull; draw
Specialized Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ wǎn jiù ér tóng ]    to rescue a child, Save the Children, a British charity
   [ wǎn ]    an elegy, elegiac words
   [ wǎn ]    an elegy, elegiac words
   [ wǎn é ]    elegiac tablet
   [ wǎn ]    variant of 挽[wan3], to draw (a cart), to lament the dead
   [ wǎn lián ]    pair of parallel verses inscribed on streamers, used as funeral decoration
   [ wǎn shī ]    elegy
   [ wǎn jìn ]    old variant of 晚近[wan3 jin4]
⇒    [ wǎn kuáng lán ]    to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis
⇒    [ wǎn huí ]    irrevocable, the die is cast
⇒    [ wǎn jiù ]    incurable, no way of curing, hopeless

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