挽

Information about character(s)

Radical: 手
Radical Strokes: 4
Additional Strokes: 7
Total Strokes: 10
Traditional Form: 輓
Variants: 掇

Pronunciation

Pinyin: wǎn
Cantonese: waan5
JapaneseKun: HIKU
JapaneseOn: BAN
Korean: MAN

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: pull; pull back, draw back

CE-Dict: to pull/to draw (a cart or a bow)/to lead (an animal)/an elegy (for use in funeral procession)/to turn (change direction)/to roll up (a scroll)/to coil

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.to draw; to pull
2.to roll up
3.to lament somebody's death
4.to seize

1.to pull a cart
2.elegiac expression

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: coil up; draw; lament sb.'s death; link; pull; roll up

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: coil up; draw; lament sb.'s death; link; pull; roll up

康熙字典文字版 【卯集中】【手字部】挽
【唐韻】無遠切【集韻】武遠切，𠀤音晚。引也。　又挽歌。【唐書·建寧王倓傳】李泌爲挽詞，追述倓志，命挽士唱。【崔豹·古今注】薤露蒿里二章，李延年分爲二曲，薤露送王公貴人，蒿里送士大夫庶人，使挽柩者歌之，世呼爲挽歌。　又【韻會】【正韻】𠀤無販切，音萬。又【集韻】美辨切，音免。義𠀤同。◎按挽輓𠀤通。

CF-Dict: enrouler/retrousser/tirer