wǎn
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary) to coil and tie up (hair, rope)
  2. 2 (literary) to roll up; to fasten together

Examples

Tā bǎ chángfà wǎn chéng yí gè fàjì.
She coiled her long hair into a bun.

Tips

history
is a literary verb for coiling and tying things up (hair, cords). It rarely stands alone in modern speech, where you would say or ; it survives in set phrases like 绾发 and classical verse. Built on the silk radical .
register
Literary and archaic. is mostly seen in poetry and historical novels, not in everyday Chinese.

Components

radical
silk; thread
The silk radical (left-side form of ) fits a verb about coiling cords and hair, and is the indexing radical of .
phonetic
guān
official; (here) phonetic
The element supplies the sound for ; it is purely phonetic here, with the reading drifted from the modern value.

Stroke Order

wǎn