juàn

take interest in

Components
龹 sound component

  Sound component

juǎn

  

to roll rice into ball

目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

eye

Evolution

眷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
眷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

juàn

take interest in, care for; concern; wife and children

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juàn

variant of [juàn]; to care about; to look fondly on

Most common words with 眷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

眷顾

to care for

眷恋

to miss

to care about

眷属

family member

家眷

one's wife and children

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ro[n]-s

kjwenH

juàn

look on with affection


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.0022% of movies

3097th most common character in movies

2967th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+7737

Shuowen

“眷,顧也。从目,聲。《詩》曰:‘乃眷西顧。’”


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