quàn

certificate

Components
龹 sound component

  Sound component

juǎn

  

to roll rice into ball

刀 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

knife

Evolution

券 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
券 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
券 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

quàn

certificate, ticket; title deeds; bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half); contract; deed (i.e. title deeds); ticket; voucher; certificate

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quàn

variant of [quàn]

Most common words with 券
Freq.
Word
Meaning

证券

certificate

contract

债券

bond

优惠券

coupon

入场券

admission ticket

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 6.5513% of movies

2205th most common character in movies

1481st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5238

Shuowen

《說文》“券,契也。从刀,聲。券別之書,以刀判契其旁,故曰契券。”


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