顽 — Chinese character
顽
wán
stubborn, recalcitrant, obstinate
- Pinyin
- wán
- Radical
- 181 ⾴ (Leaf)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 元 页
- Formation
- pictophonetic — head; meaning component 页; sound component 元
- Traditional
- 頑
Common words with 顽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 顽固 (頑固) | wán gù | stubborn; obstinate |
| 顽强 (頑強) | wán qiáng | tenacious; hard to defeat |
| 顽皮 (頑皮) | wán pí | naughty |
| 顽童 (頑童) | wán tóng | urchin |
| 顽疾 (頑疾) | wán jí | stubborn illness; chronic disease; (fig.) deep-seated problem; systemic issue |
| 顽劣 (頑劣) | wán liè | stubborn and obstreperous; naughty and mischievous |
| 老顽固 (老頑固) | lǎo wán gù | (derog.) old-fashioned and stubborn person; stick in the mud |
| 顽症 (頑症) | wán zhèng | see 顽疾 (wán jí) |
| 负隅顽抗 (負隅頑抗) | fù yú wán kàng | (idiom) to put up fierce resistance despite being surrounded; to stubbornly refuse to admit defeat |
| 冥顽不灵 (冥頑不靈) | míng wán bù líng | (idiom) pigheaded |
| 愚顽 (愚頑) | yú wán | ignorant and stubborn |
| 冥顽 (冥頑) | míng wán | stupidly obstinate |
English words written with 顽
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.