挽

See also: 輓

挽 U+633D, 挽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-633D ← 挼 [U+633C] CJK Unified Ideographs 挾 → [U+633E]

挽 U+2F8B9, 挽 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8B9 ← 𢬌 [U+2F8B8] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 拼 → [U+2F8BA]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• 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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		挽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (免) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
免	*mronʔ
娩	*mronʔ, *mronʔ, *m̥ʰons, *monʔ, *mons, *muns
勉	*mronʔ
俛	*mronʔ
鮸	*mronʔ
冕	*mronʔ
絻	*mronʔ, *moːn, *muns
婏	*m̥ʰos
浼	*muːlʔ
鞔	*moːn
悗	*moːn
嬎	*m̥ʰons
晚	*monʔ
挽	*monʔ
輓	*monʔ, *mons
脕	*monʔ, *mons, *muns
莬	*muns

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǎn (wan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bán / boán
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵ue

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǎn
    • Wade–Giles: wan³
    • Yale: wǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woan
    • Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: waan⁵
    • Yale: wáahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bán
    • Tâi-lô: bán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: barn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /ban⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /ban⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ban⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boán
    • Tâi-lô: buán
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boarn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /buan⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /buan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /buan⁵³/

Note:

• bán - vernacular;
• boán - literary.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵ue
    • MiniDict: ue^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²ue
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ue³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: mjonX

Rime
Character	挽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	無遠切
Baxter	mjonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mʉɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/miuɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muanX/
Li Rong	/miuɐnX/
Wang Li	/mĭwɐnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯wɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maan5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*monʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	挽
Reading #	1/1
No.	9081
Phonetic component	免
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	晚
Old Chinese	/*monʔ/

Definitions

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

Synonyms

• (to pull):

Dialectal synonyms of 拉 (“to pull; to tug”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		拉, 挽
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	抻, 扽
	Taiwan	拉
	Singapore	拉
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	抻, 拉
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	拉, 抻, 扯
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	扯, 拉
	Wuhan	拉, 扯, 𠡒
	Guilin	扯
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	拽, 扽, 拉
	Hefei	拉, 拽
Cantonese	Guangzhou	拉, 掹
	Hong Kong	拉, 掹
	Yangjiang	掹, 拉
	Singapore (Guangfu)	拉
Gan	Nanchang	扯, 𠡒
Hakka	Meixian	挷
Jin	Taiyuan	扯
Northern Min	Jian'ou	拔, 揄
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	拔
Southern Min	Xiamen	搝, 擢
	Quanzhou	搝, 擢
	Zhangzhou	搝, 擢
	Taipei	搝
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	搝
	Kaohsiung	搝
	Yilan	搝
	Changhua (Lukang)	搝
	Taichung	搝
	Tainan	搝, 擢
	Hsinchu	搝
	Kinmen	搝
	Penghu (Magong)	搝
	Penang (Hokkien)	搝, 擢
	Singapore (Hokkien)	搝
	Manila (Hokkien)	拔
	Chaozhou	𠡒
Wu	Shanghai	拉
	Suzhou	拉
	Ningbo	拉, 𠡒
	Wenzhou	拉, 𢱋, 𠡒
Xiang	Changsha	扯, 悶
	Shuangfeng	扯

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• 扳
• 拖 (tuō)
• 拉動 / 拉动 (lādòng)
• 拖拉 (tuōlā)
• 拖曳 (tuōyè)
• 牽引 / 牵引 (qiānyǐn)

• (to grieve):

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• 哀悼 (āidào)
• 悼念 (dàoniàn)
• 悲悼 (bēidào)

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

Compounds

• 共挽鹿車 / 共挽鹿车
• 剝挽 / 剥挽
• 力挽狂瀾 / 力挽狂澜 (lìwǎnkuánglán)
• 挽回 (wǎnhuí)
• 挽手
• 挽手兒 / 挽手儿
• 挽救 (wǎnjiù)
• 挽歌 (wǎngē)
• 挽歌郎
• 挽留 (wǎnliú)
• 挽眉毛
• 挽袖
• 挽轂 / 挽毂
• 挽面 (wǎnmiàn)
• 挽麥子 / 挽麦子
• 推挽
• 遮挽
• 遮道挽留
• 鹿車共挽 / 鹿车共挽

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 挽 – see 輓 (“to pull; to draw; to mourn; to lament; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 輓).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “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.

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waan²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: waan²
    • Yale: wáan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wan²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːn³⁵/

Definitions

挽

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

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	Shinjitai (extended)	挽󠄀 挽+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
挽󠄂 挽+󠄂? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
Kyūjitai	挽
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Kanji

挽

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

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

Korean

Hanja

挽 • (man) (hangeul 만)

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Vietnamese

Han character

挽: Hán Nôm readings: vãn

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References

• Nom Foundation