quán

Traditional: 全

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Translation

whole, entire, all

Word origin

The character shows 王 (jade) under a roof-like 入, suggesting a flawless, complete piece of jade. From completeness it came to mean whole or entire.

Origin
associative compound
Root
入 (to enter) over 王 (jade), suggesting a complete whole

Stroke order

Stroke order for 全

Examples

The whole class passed the exam.

juān

He donated all of his money.

The whole world is following this matter.

湿shī

I am soaked all over.

I have read this whole book.

全 (quán) means whole, entire or all. It modifies nouns to mean the entirety of something.

Appears in 5 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 全.

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This word is part of lesson 26.