挽

to pull / to draw (a cart or a bow) / to roll up / to coil / to carry on the arm / to lament the dead / (fig.) to pull against / to recover

variant of 挽[wan3] / to draw (a cart) / to lament the dead

to excuse sb / to exempt / to remove or dismiss from office / to avoid / to avert / to escape / to be prohibited

old variant of 絻[wen4]

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

to save / to remedy / to rescue

to retrieve / to redeem

to urge to stay / to detain

to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis

harness

a dirge / an elegy

large elegiac scroll

irreversible

pulling power (of draft animals)

to rescue a child / Save the Children, a British charity