挽

挽 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手弓日山 (QNAU), four-corner 5701₆, composition ⿰扌免)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 432, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12111
• Dae Jaweon: page 781, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1886, character 5
• Unihan data for U+633D

• Unihan data for U+2F8B9

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *monʔ): semantic 扌 + phonetic 免 (OC *mronʔ).

挽

1. to pull
2. to pull back; to draw back
3. (alt. form 輓／挽) to grieve; to mourn; to lament (a person's death)
4. to save (damages, reputation, lost fortune, etc.); to recover; to reverse
5. (alt. form 綰／绾) to roll up; to coil
6. (Hokkien) to pluck; to pick; to pull out; to pull up

   細漢偷挽匏，大漢偷牽牛 [Hokkien, trad.]
   细汉偷挽匏，大汉偷牵牛 [Hokkien, simp.]

   sè-hàn thau bán pû, tōa-hàn thau khan gû [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   one's behavior as a child will be paralleled in adulthood
   'if as a child one steals via picking calabash, then as adult one will steal via leading cattle away'

7. (Hokkien) to twist; to bend; to swing (one's body)
8. (Hokkien) to hold back; to hold down; to grab; to restrain
9. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Philippine Hokkien) to pull a muscle; to sprain; to overstrain (e.g. the ankle, wrist, tendon, lumbar vertebrae, etc.)
10. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to be sulkingly obstinate
11. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to endure; to persist; to put up with (an illness, injury, etc.)
12. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to economize; to cut back; to moderate oneself; to limit oneself; to temper oneself
13. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to pull through

• (to pull):

• (to grieve):

• (to save): 挽回 (wǎnhuí)
• (to roll up): 捲起／卷起 (juǎnqǐ)
• (to pluck): 摘 (zhāi); (Hakka) 拗

• “挽”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

挽

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak) alternative form of 玩 (waan4-2)

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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• Go-on: もん (mon)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: ひく (hiku, 挽く)

挽 • (man) (hangeul 만)

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挽: Hán Nôm readings: vãn

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