hàn

ward off

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 .

旱 sound component

  Sound component

hàn

  

drought

Definitions

 

hàn

ward off, guard against, defend; to ward off (a blow); to withstand; to defend

() 

hàn

variant of [hàn]

Most common words with 捍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

捍卫

to defend

to defend

捍卫者

proponent

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-kˤa[r]-s

hanH

hàn

ward off; protect, guard


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.0022% of movies

3010th most common character in movies

3255th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+634D


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