juàn
adjective #26,945

Meanings

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

Examples

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

Tips

usage
is rarely used alone in modern Chinese; it typically appears in compounds: 疲倦 (píjuàn, fatigued), 厌倦 (yànjuàn, weary of/bored with), 倦怠 (juàndài, 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 → juàn. also adds a faint semantic image — a person curled up like a rolled-up scroll, hunched from fatigue. Same phonetic in itself and circle, all carrying the curl-up flavour.

Stroke Order

juàn