Chinese symbol for “cramps”
拘挛
jū luán
Traditional: 拘攣
cramps; muscular spasm; fig. constrained; ill at ease
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cramps is 拘挛 (jū luán), defined as: cramps; muscular spasm; fig. constrained; ill at ease.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 拘挛.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拘留 | jū liú | to detain (as a prisoner); to keep sb in custody |
| 拘捕 | jū bǔ | to arrest |
| 拘束 | jū shù | to restrict; to restrain |
| 拘留所 | jū liú suǒ | detention center; prison |
| 拘禁 | jū jìn | constraint; to detain |
| 拘役 | jū yì | detention |
| 痉挛 (痙攣) | jìng luán | to jerk; to contort |
| 挛缩 (攣縮) | luán suō | (medicine) (verb and noun) contracture |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cramps”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.