卷 juǎn▶ volume

Stroke order

卷 is written in 8 strokes.

• 卷

Senses

1. to roll up
2. (fig.) to sweep up; to engulf; to drag into (a situation)
3. (slang) to compete to an unhealthy degree; hypercompetitive
4. a roll
5. classifier for small rolled-up things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)

Related words

• 试卷kertas ujian

卷 is pronounced juǎn and means “volume”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 卷 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.