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卷
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Definitions
- 1. scroll
- 2. book
- 3. volume
- 4. chapter
- 5. examination paper
- 6. classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll
Words Containing 卷
retroflex vowel (e.g. the final r of putonghua)
see 行萬里路，讀萬卷書|行万里路，读万卷书[xíng wàn lǐ lù , dú wàn juàn shū]
pencil sharpener (blade-only type)
tornado
moxa cigar
tape
roll-up door
color film
lit. opening a book is profitable (idiom); the benefits of education
taco
to pack one's things and leave
to spin
(bird species of China) black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)
to curl hair
ribbon lap machine
exam paper
to grade exam papers
to curl (hair)
tape measure
tornado
Dead Sea Scrolls
scroll (book or painting)
(bird species of China) Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus)
test paper; examination paper
lit. a thousand sutras, ten thousand scrolls; fig. the vast Buddhist canon
egg roll
closed-book examination
lit. to furl up flags and umbrellas (idiom)
lit. always with a book in hand (idiom)
cirrocumulus (cloud)
hair roller
film
omelet
curved blade
Knowledge comes from books and from experience of the world. (idiom)
hair curler
see 龍捲風|龙卷风[lóng juǎn fēng]
to correct student papers
cigarette
to bundle up
cirrostratus (cloud)
(bird species of China) hair-crested drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus)
roller shutter
microfilm
picture scroll
to stop reading
(bird species of China) ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus)
tendril
(embryology) to involute
Chinese steamed twisted bread roll
examination paper
completed examination paper
scholarly flavor
crunch (physical exercise)
hand scroll (horizontal format for Chinese landscape painting)
file
to wrap up
see 行萬里路，讀萬卷書|行万里路，读万卷书[xíng wàn lǐ lù , dú wàn juàn shū]
volume
to be drawn into
to travel a thousand miles beats reading a thousand books
volumes of classics
waterspout (meteorology)
to engulf
exam paper
(bird species of China) bronzed drongo (Dicrurus aeneus)
to plunder the land and extort from the peasant
to hem
a huge amount (of books and papers)
surviving section of a classic work
cigarette
to consult the archives
egg roll
book
to hand in one's examination script
to roll up
lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom)
to flutter
to grade exam papers
Dead Sea Scrolls
records
white-headed capuchin (Cebus capucinus)
Swiss roll
fishing reel
a whirlwind
to pack and quit
presidential award (received by university students in Taiwan for academic excellence)
to bundle up valuables and abscond
cabbage
see 考試卷|考试卷[kǎo shì juàn]
questionnaire
(bird species of China) crow-billed drongo (Dicrurus annectans)
a capstan
steamed roll
cirrus (cloud)
to open a book
to wind
rolled-up pastry