挽 — Chinese character
挽
wǎn
to pull, to lead; to pull back, to draw a bow
- Pinyin
- wǎn
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 扌 免
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 免
- Traditional
- 輓
- Japanese
- 挽 as a kanji
Common words with 挽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挽救 | wǎn jiù | to save; to remedy |
| 挽回 | wǎn huí | to retrieve; to redeem |
| 挽留 | wǎn liú | to urge to stay; to detain |
| 挽歌 | wǎn gē | a dirge; an elegy |
| 挽联 (輓聯) | wǎn lián | pair of parallel verses inscribed on streamers, used as funeral decoration |
| 无可挽回 (無可挽回) | wú kě wǎn huí | irrevocable; the die is cast |
| 力挽狂澜 (力挽狂瀾) | 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 |
| 挽词 (挽詞) | wǎn cí | an elegy; elegiac words |
| 推挽 | tuī wǎn | to push and pull; to move sth forward by shoving and pulling |
| 挽诗 (輓詩) | wǎn shī | elegy |
| 挽幛 | wǎn zhàng | large elegiac scroll |
English words written with 挽
挽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.