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卷

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scroll; book; volume; chapter; examination paper; classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll

8 strokes Dict coverage rank #697 U+5377

How 卷 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A curled up scroll 㔾

components: 龹 㔾

How to remember it

exam paper · Heisig RSH #2447

quarter + fingerprint

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 卷 as their sound component

These characters all use 卷 (juàn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

CharacterPinyinMeaning
卷 sound component juàn book, scroll, volume; curled up; to curl, to roll
圈 quān circle, ring, loop; to encircle
惓 quán candid, sincere; careful, earnest
绻 quǎn attached, inseparable, in love
锩 juàn to bend iron

Words containing 卷

WordPinyinMeaning
死海经卷 Sǐ hǎi jīng juàn Dead Sea Scrolls
死海古卷 Sǐ hǎi gǔ juàn Dead Sea Scrolls
水龙卷 shuǐ lóng juǎn waterspout (meteorology)
卷发器 juǎn fà qì hair curler
读万卷书,行万里路 dú wàn juàn shū , xíng wàn lǐ lù (lit.) read ten thousand books and travel ten thousand miles (idiom); (fig.) acquire knowl…
自来卷 zì lái juǎn natural curls; natural wave
卷土重来 juǎn tǔ chóng lái lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom); fig. to regroup and come back even stronger; to…
书卷气 shū juàn qì scholarly flavor; educated appearance
卷线器 juǎn xiàn qì fishing reel
龙卷风 lóng juǎn fēng tornado; hurricane; twister; cyclone
卷地皮 juǎn dì pí to plunder the land and extort from the peasant; corrupt practice
自然卷 zì rán juǎn natural curls; natural wave
卷心菜 juǎn xīn cài cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) (CL:棵[ke1])
卷心菜 juǎn xīn cài variant of 卷心菜[juan3 xin1 cai4]
行万里路胜读万卷书 xíng wàn lǐ lù shèng dú wàn juàn shū to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books
卷子 juǎn zi steamed roll; spring roll
卷子 juàn zi test paper; examination paper
中卷 zhōng juǎn adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in the shape of a…
黑卷尾 hēi juǎn wěi (bird species of China) black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)
小卷 xiǎo juǎn young squid (Tw)