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拳

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

boxing

HSK 7 N1

Human →Actions

quán

ケン、ゲン

こぶし

권

Components

龹 to roll rice into ball+ 手 hand =

拳 boxing

龹 Phonetic component

juǎn to roll rice into ball

to roll

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手 Meaning component

shǒu hand

hand

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

拳

Regular

Modern

Chinese

拳 [quán]

fist; boxing

Japanese

拳こぶし同音

noun fist

拳けん同音

noun hand game (e.g. rock-paper-scissors)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

おまえも決して戦う拳を忘れるな。

Never lose your fighting fists.

Japanese Names

拳けん

Ken given name

拳つとむ

Tsutomu male given name

拳つよし

Tsuyoshi male given name

CHINESE WORDS (100)

拳击 [quánjī] #3,708

拳击 [quánjī] #3,708

拳头 [quántou] #5,186

拳头 [quántou] #5,186

拳王 [quánwáng] #7,537

boxing champion

跆拳道 [táiquándào] #10,702

taekwondo (Korean martial art)

拳手 [quánshǒu] #8,711

拳击手 [quánjīshǒu] #8,640

拳击手 [quánjīshǒu] #8,640

拳脚 [quánjiǎo] #17,302

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JAPANESE WORDS (69)

拳を握る [こぶしをにぎる] #5,369

⭐ 拳銃 [けんじゅう] #8,307

握り拳 [にぎりこぶし] #22,124

⭐ 拳骨 [げんこつ] #28,661

(clenched) fist

鉄拳 [てっけん] #28,663

Tekken (video game series and media franchise)

裏拳 [うらけん] #34,153

拳を打つ [けんをうつ] #34,304

to play a hand game (e.g. rock, paper, scissors)

拳法 [けんぽう] #34,577

Chinese martial arts

両拳 [りょうけん] #34,964

こぶし大 [こぶしだい] #37,207

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KOREAN WORDS (3)

taegwondo; taekwondo