wǎn

to pull

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

免 sound component

  Sound component

miǎnwèn

  

(hat), avoid

Evolution

挽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
挽 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
挽 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
挽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

 

wǎn

to pull; to draw (a cart or a bow); to roll up; to coil; to carry on the arm; to lament the dead; (fig.) to pull against; to recover

() 

wǎn

mourn; pull; draw; variant of [wǎn]; to draw (a cart)

Most common words with 挽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挽救

to save

挽回

to retrieve

to pull

挽留

to detain

力挽狂澜

to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis