挽
Information about character(s)
Radical: 手Radical Strokes: 4
Additional Strokes: 7
Total Strokes: 10
Traditional Form: 輓
Variants: 掇
Pronunciation
Pinyin: wǎnCantonese: waan5
JapaneseKun: HIKU
JapaneseOn: BAN
Korean: MAN
Dictionary definitions
Unicode: pull; pull back, draw backCE-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