圈

juān

HSK 4freq #1517

Meanings

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juān

1.to confine
2.to lock up
3.to pen in

juàn

1.livestock enclosure; pen; fold; sty

quān

1.circle; ring; loop
2.(fig.) social circle; niche group; community; fandom
3.classifier for loops, orbits, laps
4.to surround; to encircle
5.to circle (sth); to mark with a circle

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Wiktionary

1.pen; sty; fold
2.state; city
3.a surname, Juan
4.to enclose; to encircle; to circle
5.to mark with a circle
6.to bend; to angle; to curve
7.circle; ring; loop
8.earring
9.area; circle
10.social circle; connections; group
11.trap; trick; trickery
12.Classifier for laps of a race, loops, orbits, etc.
13.Classifier for rounds of a game.
14.to shut in a pen; to pen in
15.to lock up; to jail
16.to confine

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰron, *ɡronʔ, *kʰon, *ɡlonʔ, *ɡlons): semantic 囗 + phonetic 卷 (OC *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ).

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Stroke order

Components

圈囗卷

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

我喜歡甜甜圈。
I like doughnuts.
汤姆买了一打甜甜圈。
Tom bought a dozen donuts.
我每个星期日礼拜完都买甜甜圈。
I buy donuts every Sunday after church.

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Related words

圈子 circle 圈套 trap; snare; trick 圈内 among insiders; within the community (of publishers, cyclists or cosplayers etc); (esp.) in show business circles 怪圈 vicious circle 懵圈 variant of 蒙圈[mēng quān]颈圈 collar (animal)气圈 (planet) atmosphere 钻圈 jumping through hoops (as acrobatic show)猪圈 (lit. and fig.) pigsty 罗圈 round frame of a sieve 经圈 line of longitude 马圈 stable