挽
wǎn HSK7

to pull

挽 wǎn frequency
to restore verb
to reverse, save, or restore a situation (as in 挽回 wǎn​huí or 挽救 wǎn​jiù)

你的小小的善举可能会挽救生命。

nǐ de xiǎo​xiǎo de shàn​jǔ kě​néng huì wǎn jiù shēng​mìng.

Your small act of kindness might save a life.

to carry on the arm verb
to hook one's arm through another person's arm, or to carry something like a basket on the arm

母亲挽着我的胳膊，好像她是第一夫人一样。

mǔ​qīn wǎn zhe wǒ​de gē​bo, hǎo​xiàng tā shì dì​yī​fū​ren yī​yàng.

My mom took my arm as if she were the First Lady.

to roll up
to roll or fold up one's sleeves or pant legs
to coil
to coil, twist, or tie one's hair into a knot; sometimes used as a variant of 绾 wǎn
挽 wǎn
variant 輓
to pull verb
to pull or draw something; specifically used for drawing a bow or pulling a cart
to lament
to mourn or lament the dead, used in terms for elegies or funeral scrolls; same as 挽 wǎn
挽 輓 wǎn
late
(archaic) same as 晚 wǎn

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,222nd most common 27.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,991st most common 19.6 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.73 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
5.52 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
輓
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+633D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)