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拳

quán

HSK 5 Character

What 拳 means

1. fist
2. boxing

Example sentences

• 你玩拳击吗？
  Do you box?
• 他打了墙壁一拳。
  Tā dǎ le qiángbì yī quán.
  He hit the wall with his fist.
• 她用拳头拍了桌子。
  Tā yòng quántou pāi le zhuōzi.
  She banged the table with her fist.
• 我很喜欢北斗之拳！
  Wǒ hěn xǐhuan Běidǒu zhī quán!
  I love Fist of the North Star!
• 汤姆握紧了他的拳头。
  Tāngmǔ wò jǐn le tā de quántou.
  Tom clenched his fists.
• 拳不离手，曲不离口。
  No day without a line.

Words starting with 拳

• 拳头quán toufist; (of a product, service, project etc) flagship; key; core
• 拳击quán jīboxing
• 拳打脚踢quán dǎ jiǎo tīlit. to punch and kick (idiom); to beat up; fig. determined to sort out a problem
• 拳脚quán jiǎoChinese boxing; fist and feet; punching and kicking
• 拳交quán jiāofisting (sex act)
• 拳套quán tàoboxing glove
• 拳师quán shīboxing coach; pugilist master
• 拳手quán shǒuboxer
• 拳打quán dǎto punch
• 拳拳quán quán(literary) earnest; sincere
• 拳曲quán qūto curl
• 拳棒quán bàngmartial arts; kung fu
• 拳法quán fǎboxing; fighting technique
• 拳王quán wángboxing champion
• 拳术quán shùChinese boxing; fisticuffs
• 拳击手quán jī shǒuboxer
• 拳击台quán jī táiboxing ring
• 拳击手套quán jī shǒu tàoboxing glove
• 拳击选手quán jī xuǎn shǒuboxer
• 拳脚相向quán jiǎo xiāng xiàngto square off; to exchange blows; to rain blows on sb
• 拳头产品quán tou chǎn pǐnflagship product; star product

Words containing 拳

• 太极拳tài jí quánshadowboxing or Taiji, T'aichi or T'aichichuan; traditional form of physical exercise or…
• 跆拳道tái quán dàotaekwondo (Korean martial art)
• 抱拳bào quánto cup one's fist in the other hand (as a sign of respect)
• 铁拳tiě quániron fist
• 赤手空拳chì shǒu kōng quán(idiom) with one's bare hands (unarmed – also figuratively: without assistance)
• 摩拳擦掌mó quán cā zhǎngfig. to rub one's fists and wipe one's palms (idiom)…
• 握拳wò quánto make a fist
• 打拳dǎ quánto do shadowboxing
• 猜拳cāi quánfinger-guessing game; rock-paper-scissors game; morra
• 出拳chū quánto throw a punch
• 划拳huá quánfinger-guessing game
• 南拳nán quánNanquan - "Southern Fist" (Chinese Martial Art)
• 查拳chá quánCha Quan - "Cha Fist" - Martial Art
• 泰拳Tài quánMuay Thai - "Thai fist" - Martial Art
• 狗拳gǒu quánGou Quan - "Dog Fist" - Martial Art
• 粉拳fěn quánsoft, ineffectual fist (usu. of a woman)
• 花拳huā quánshowy boxing of no practical use; see 花拳绣腿
• 华拳huá quánHua Quan - "Flowery Fist? Magnificent Fist?" - Martial Art
• 长拳cháng quánChangquan - Northern Shaolin (北少林) - Longfist - Martial Art
• 斗拳dòu quánboxing
• 地躺拳dì tǎng quánDi Tang Quan - "Ground-Prone Fist"; "Ground Tumbling Boxing" - Martial Art
• 形意拳Xíng yì quánXingyiquan (Chinese martial art)
• 截拳道jié quán dàoJeet Kun Do or Way of the Intercepting Fist, a fusion of Eastern and Western martial arts…
• 梅花拳méi huā quánMeihua Quan - "Plum Blossom Fist" (Chinese Martial Art)

Characters built on 龹

These share the phonetic component 龹 (), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 卷juànscroll; book; volume
• 券quànbond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half); contract…
• 眷juàn(bound form) one's family, esp. wife and children; (literary) to regard with love and…
• 劵juànold variant of 倦
• 豢huànto rear; to raise (animals)

Characters that look like 拳

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 毒dúpoison; to poison; poisonous
• 泰tàisafe; peaceful; most
• 辱rǔdisgrace; dishonor; to insult
• 婆pó(bound form) grandmother; (bound form) matron; (bound form) mother-in-law
• 眷juàn(bound form) one's family, esp. wife and children; (literary) to regard with love and…
• 娄Lóusurname Lou; one of the 28 lunar mansions in Chinese astronomy

Sounds the same

Read quán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 全all; whole; entire
• 泉spring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
• 权authority; power; right
• 蜷to curl up (like a scroll); to huddle; Melania libertina
• 荃(fragrant plant)
• 诠to explain; to comment; to annotate
• 鬈to curl; curled
• 痊to recover (from illness)
• 醛aldehyde
• 铨to estimate; to select
• 颧(bound form) cheekbone
• 筌bamboo fish trap