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Word and Radical Components of 卷笔刀

The Chinese word 卷笔刀 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
卷笔刀 1. Simplified form of 卷筆刀

卷笔刀 ⇨ 卷 + 笔 + 刀
Component Pinyin Meanings
卷 juǎn 1. Alternative form of 捲 (to roll up; to roll)
2. Alternative form of 捲 (to sweep up; to carry along; to sweep away)
3. Alternative form of 捲 (to embroil; to involve)
4. Alternative form of 捲 (roll; cylinder; tube; scroll)
5. (neologism, slang) Short for 內卷, intense competition among peers; to study harder or work longer as a result
juàn 6. reel of books
7. book; scroll
8. volume; chapter; fascicle
9. (computing) volume (attention, zh, is this definition under the right pronunciation?)
     新-加 卷juàn - new volume
10. examination paper
quán 11. Alternative form of 婘 (fine; good)
12. Variant of 券
笔 1. Variant of 筆
刀 dāo 1. knife; blade
2. single-edged sword; cutlass
3. (neologism, internet) to bargain; to negotiate on price
4. (q-lite, only common among Tai people)
     刀 世-勛 - Dao Shixun
dāo 5. (Mandarin, neologism, colloquial) dollar
6. Variant of 刁

笔 ⇨ ⺮ + 毛
Component Pinyin Meanings
竹 zhú 1. bamboo
     竹子zi - bamboo
2. (musical instrument) musical instrument made of bamboo
     Zhu
毛 máo, Máo 1. hair (of humans or animals); fur; feather
     雞毛 - chicken feather
2. (dialectal) hair on the head
3. mildew; mold
4. (colloquial) jiao; one tenth of a yuan or dollar; ten cents; dime
     一 毛 錢 - a jiao / ten cents
     三 塊 兩 毛 - three yuan and two jiao / three dollars and twenty cents
     五毛黨 - wumao
5. coarse; raw; semifinished
     毛茶 - raw tea
6. (of an amount) gross
     Antonyms: 淨
     毛利 - gross profit
     毛重 - gross weight
7. rough; sketchy
     毛估 - to make a rough estimate
8. small; little
     毛毛雨 - drizzle
     毛孩子zi - mere child
9. careless; unthinking
     毛手毛腳 - to be careless
10. panicked; scared; nervous
     把 我 嚇 毛 了 - to have scared me
11. angry; furious
12. (of currency) depreciated
13. (mainland, colloquial or slang) no; nothing; damn all; my ass
     有 毛 用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
     管 毛 用 - be not effective or useful, to be of damn-all use
14. (Cantonese, colloquial, always with the classifier) nothing; damn all; jack shit; bugger all
     Synonyms: 春
     你 識 條 毛 咩？ - Do you know anything at all?
15. (ACG) hair (in unnatural colours)
     白 毛 - the character with white-coloured hair
     假毛 - wig
     毛 澤-東 - Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), founder of the People's Republic of China
16. usage. In Standard Chinese, for hair on the human head, use 頭髮 instead.