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滚

gǔn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 5 Character Traditional 滾

滚 (gǔn) means "to roll (along)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 滚 means

1. to boil
2. to roll
3. to take a hike
4. Get lost!

Example sentences

• 滚！
  Get away!
• 滚。
  Leave now.
• 滚开！
  Gǔnkāi!
  Get lost!
• 滚出去！
  Get out!
• 我爱摇滚。
  Wǒ ài yáogǔn.
  I love rock music.
• 滚出我家！
  Get out of my house!

Words starting with 滚

• 滚滚gǔn gǔnto surge on; to roll on
• 滚动gǔn dòngto roll; (to do sth) in a loop; to scroll (computing)
• 滚烫gǔn tàngboiling hot
• 滚蛋gǔn dàn(slang) get out of here!; beat it!
• 滚落gǔn luòto tumble
• 滚开gǔn kāi(of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot; (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off!
• 滚瓜烂熟gǔn guā làn shúlit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently…
• 滚刀gǔn dāo(engineering) gear hob (cutting tool used in manufacturing gears)
• 滚圆gǔn yuánas round as a ball
• 滚子gǔn ziroller
• 滚水gǔn shuǐboiling water
• 滚球gǔn qiúlawn bowls; bocce; pétanque
• 滚石Gǔn shíRock Records, Taiwanese record label; the Rolling Stones, British rock band…
• 滚轮gǔn lúnroller; rotating dial; (computer mouse) scroll wheel
• 滚边gǔn biān(of a dress etc) border, edging
• 滚刀块gǔn dāo kuàichunks obtained by repeatedly cutting a vegetable diagonally and rotating the vegetable…
• 滚刀肉gǔn dāo ròuannoying person; troublemaker; pain in the neck
• 滚动条gǔn dòng tiáo(computing) scroll bar
• 滚床单gǔn chuáng dān(colloquial) to have sex
• 滚彩蛋gǔn cǎi dànegg rolling (rolling of decorated, hard-boiled eggs down hillsides by children at Easter)
• 滚装船gǔn zhuāng chuánroll-on, roll-off ship (RORO ship); vessel designed to load and unload vehicles by…
• 滚石上山gǔn shí shàng shānlit. to roll a boulder up a hill (like Sisyphus) (idiom)…
• 滚子轴承gǔn zi zhóu chéngroller bearing
• 滚珠gǔn zhūbearing ball

Words containing 滚

• 摇滚yáo gǔnrock 'n' roll (music); to rock; to fall off
• 摇滚乐yáo gǔn yuèrock music; rock 'n roll
• 翻滚fān gǔnto roll; to boil
• 打滚dǎ gǔnto roll about
• 摸爬滚打mō pá gǔn dǎto go through challenging experiences; to become seasoned (in one's profession etc)
• 连滚带爬lián gǔn dài pá(idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape
• 回滚huí gǔn(computing) to roll back; rollback; (sports) (of a ball) to come back…
• 利滚利lì gǔn lìcompound interest (esp. in loans, snowballing debt)
• 圆滚滚yuán gǔn gǔnplump
• 地滚球dì gǔn qiúten-pin bowling; bowling ball; (baseball etc) ground ball
• 财源滚滚cái yuán gǔn gǔnprofits pouring in from all sides (idiom); raking in money; bonanza
• 后摇滚hòu yáo gǔnpost-rock (music genre)
• 屁滚尿流pì gǔn niào liúto piss one's pants in terror (idiom); scared witless
• 瞪鞋摇滚dèng xié yáo gǔnshoegaze (music genre)
• 硝烟滚滚xiāo yān gǔn gǔn(idiom) smoke billows from the raging battle
• 瓜无滚圆，人无十全guā wú gǔn yuán , rén wú shí quánno gourd is perfectly round, just as no man is perfect (proverb)

Characters that look like 滚

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

• 演yǎnto perform (a play etc); to stage (a show); (bound form) to develop; to play out…
• 握wòto hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control
• 湿shīmoist; wet
• 渲xuànwash (color)
• 湮yān(literary) to sink into oblivion; (literary) to silt up; Taiwan pr. yīn
• 遛liùto stroll; to walk (an animal)

Sounds the same

Read gǔn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 衮imperial robe
• 辊roller
• 丨radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)
• 磙roller; to level with a roller
• 绲cord; embroidered sash; to sew
• 鲧Gun, mythical father of Yu the Great 大禹
• 蔉to bank up the roots of plants

Where 滚 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Motion, Physical Action & Sport (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gǔn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.