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彎

wān

bend

Phonosemantic compound. 弓 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.

Components
䜌 sound component

䜌  Sound component

luán

  

tie together

弓 meaning component

弓  Meaning component

gōng

  

bow

Evolution

彎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
彎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

弯 (彎) 

wān

bend, curve; to bend; bent; a bend; a turn (in the road etc); CL:道[dào]

Most common words with 彎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

弯

bent

转弯

to turn

弯曲

to bend

弯腰

to stoop

拐弯

to go round a curve

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

灣

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.8144% of movies

1842nd most common character in movies

1662nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

弯

Unicode

U+5F4E

Shuowen

“彎，持弓關矢也。从弓，聲。”


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