拳

See also 挙

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic  + semantic 手 (“hand”) – a fist is a form of a hand.

Han character

拳 (radical 64 手+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火手手 (FQQ), four-corner 9050₂)

1. fist
2. various forms of boxing

Related characters

• 券

References

• KangXi: page 428, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11996
• Dae Jaweon: page 777, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1864, character 8
• Unihan data for U+62F3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

拳 (Yale kyun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

拳

Readings

• On: けん (ken), げん (gen)
• Kun: こぶし (kobushi)

Compounds

• 拳骨
• 拳闘 (けんとう, kentō, “boxing”)
• 拳法

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Korean

Hanja

拳 (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune-Reischauer kwŏn, Yale kwen)

Compounds

• 跆拳道 (태권도): taekwondo

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Mandarin

Hanzi

拳 (pinyin quán (quan2), Wade-Giles ch'üan²)

Compounds

• 拳棒
• 拳打脚踢
• 拳击, 拳擊
• 拳脚
• 拳派
• 拳谱
• 拳曲
• 拳拳
• 拳拳服膺
• 拳师
• 拳术
• 拳坛
• 拳套
• 拳头
• 拳头产品
• 拳王

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Vietnamese

Han character

拳 (quyền, quèn)