漢字Kanji · in Time & Sequence
巻: scroll, volume
Also: book, part, roll up, wind up, tie, coil, counter for texts (or book scrolls)
- 𠔉(sound)
- 己self(meaning)
己 carries the meaning · 𠔉 gives the sound
Four readings, and the words that use each
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 巻末かんまつend of a book
- 全巻ぜんかんthe whole volume
- 別巻べっかんseparate volume, extra issue
- 第一巻だいいっかんfirst volume
まくmaku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 巻くまくwind, coil, roll [v.t.]
まきmaki · kun'yomi
- 葉巻はまきcigar
- 絵巻物えまきものpicture scroll
まきmaki · kun'yomi
- 巻き添えまきぞえget mixed up in [n.]
- 渦巻きうずまきwhirlpool, eddy, coil
- のり巻きのりまきSushi roll
Also read ケン, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)𢍏 (sound) + 卩 kneeling person (meaning)
To bend; reel of books. The phonetic component could also add part of the meaning since it indicates the act of rolling rice into balls, hence "bending" rice.
Source: Wiktionary, 卷 (rev. 92200057), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Self (己) + two hands + cloth. To take a "self-contained" piece of cloth or paper and "roll it up" with two hands to create a scroll or volume.”
Connections
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 卷 · juǎn
巻 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 卷 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 卷 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 卷 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin juǎn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.