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挽 (waan5) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

挽 (waan5, wǎn) — to pull; to draw (a cart or a bow); to roll up; to coil; to carry on the arm; to lament the dead; (fig.) to pull against; to recover; to pull back

Classifier

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Usage

Level

beyond HSK

Related words

• 挽回 (waan5 wui4) — to rescue a situation
• 挽手 (waan5 sau2) — hands in hands
• 挽鞋 (waan5 haai4) — verb; literally: carry the shoe; Metaphor, look down on someone; or, to serve s…
• 挽具 (waan5 geoi6) — harness
• 挽力 (waan5 lik6) — pulling power (of draft animals)
• 挽幛 (waan5 zoeng3) — large elegiac scroll

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