拳拳

Chinese

		fist	fist
simp. and trad. (拳拳)		拳	拳
alternative forms		惓惓 卷卷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quánquán

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄑㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyun⁴ kyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: quánquán
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄑㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyuáncyuán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻüan²-chʻüan²
    • Yale: chywán-chywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuanchyuan
    • Palladius: цюаньцюань (cjuanʹcjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyun⁴ kyun⁴
    • Yale: kyùhn kyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyn⁴ kyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kün⁴ kün⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːn²¹ kʰyːn²¹/

Adjective

拳拳 (literary, ideophonic)

1. earnest; sincere

   盛意拳拳  ―  shèngyì quánquán  ―  generous and sincere

2. diligent; industrious

   • 郡遣督郵至縣，吏白「應束帶見之」，潛歎曰：「吾不能為五斗米折腰，拳拳事鄉里小人邪！」 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     郡遣督邮至县，吏白「应束带见之」，潜叹曰：「吾不能为五斗米折腰，拳拳事乡里小人邪！」 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 648 CE, Fang Xuanling (lead editor), Book of Jin

     Jùn qiǎn dūyóu zhì xiàn, lì bái “yīng shùdài jiàn zhī”, Qián tàn yuē: “Wú bùnéng wèi wǔ dǒu mǐ zhéyāo, quánquán shì xiānglǐ xiǎorén yé!” [Pinyin]

     The commandery sent a postal inspector to the county, and an official suggested: "You should wear formal clothes to see him." Qian sighed: "I cannot bow down for the sake of five pecks of rice and flatter [lit. industriously attend to] a base person!"

3. curved; bent
4. yearning

Derived terms

• 拳拳服膺
• 洶洶拳拳／汹汹拳拳

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (拳拳):

• → Korean: 권권(拳拳) (gwon'gwon)