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quàn
HSK 5freq #3745

Meanings

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quàn
  1. 1.to advise
  2. 2.to urge
  3. 3.to try to persuade
  4. 4.to exhort
  5. 5.to console
  6. 6.to soothe

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to hide; to conceal
  2. 2.to put; to place
  3. 3.to keep; to put aside
  4. 4.to deposit

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 囗 (“enclosure”) + phonetic 亢 (OC *kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs). Compare Proto-Tai *k.raŋᴬ, whence Thai ขัง (kǎng, “to confine; to imprison”) (Manomaivibool, 1976).

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