juàn
adjective #26,945

Meanings

  1. 1 tired; weary; fatigued
  2. 2 worn out; exhausted

Examples

HSK 6
Tā duì zhè fèn gōngzuò gǎndào yànjuàn.
She feels tired and bored with this job.
HSK 7-9
Lǚtú láolèi, tā gǎndào shífēn juàndài.
Worn out from travel, he felt extremely fatigued.

Tips

usage
is rarely used alone in modern Chinese; it typically appears in compounds: 疲倦 (fatigued), 厌倦 (weary of/bored with), 倦怠 (exhaustion/burnout). 厌倦 implies mental weariness, while 疲倦 is more physical.

Components

radical
rén
person (left-side form of 人)
Standing-person radical on the left - the side-form of . Indexes in the human-state family with rest, body, healthy. Marks the character as a condition of a person: here, the worn-out feeling that comes from prolonged effort.
phonetic
juǎn
roll up; volume
Right side supplies the sound with a tone shift: juǎn to juàn. It also adds a faint semantic image - a person curled up like a rolled-up scroll, hunched from fatigue. Same phonetic appears in circle, all carrying the curl-up flavour.

Stroke Order

juàn