Chinese Character Wiki

攬

lǎn

grasp

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 覽 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

覽 sound component

覽  Sound component

lǎn

  

look at

Evolution

攬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
攬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
攬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
攬 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

揽 (攬) 

lǎn

grasp, take hold of; monopolize; to monopolize; to seize; to take into one's arms; to embrace; to fasten (with a rope etc); to take on (responsibility etc); to canvass

Most common words with 攬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

揽

to seize

招揽

to attract (customers)

包揽

to monopolize

一揽子

all-inclusive

承揽

to contract for an entire project

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.9862% of movies

3075th most common character in movies

2807th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

揽

Unicode

U+652C

Shuowen

“擥，撮持也。从手，監聲。”


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