HSK 5 · Verbs

捐 juān “to donate” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 捐 means

  1. to donate
  2. to contribute
  3. to relinquish
  4. to abandon
  5. (bound form) tax
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • levy

How to say 捐

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale捐juān1st tone, high and level

捐 in a sentence

  1. 你每年捐多少钱？

    Nǐ měinián juān duōshǎo qián?

    How much money do you donate every year?

    Sentence #771056 from Tatoeba

  2. 我不太确定他希望我捐多少。

    Wǒ bú tài quèdìng tā xīwàng wǒ juān duōshǎo.

    I’m not quite sure how much he expects me to donate.

    Sentence #13914734 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我一得到一大笔钱就捐一部分给慈善机构。

    Wǒ yì dédào yí dàbǐ qián jiù juān yíbùfen gěi císhànjīgòu.

    Whenever I get a large sum of money, I donate part of it to charity.

    Sentence #2367587 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 捐 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 捐 (juān) with each of its parts in a different colour
捐juānto relinquish; to abandon
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 肙a small worm · yuānSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 肙 (yuān) hints at the sound. Compare it with juān.

How to write 捐

捐 10 strokes

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捐 (juān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 捐 (juān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 捐

More words: Common Verbs

尽力jìnlì · to strive one’s hardest进步jìnbù · progress救jiù · to rescue具备jùbèi · to possess开放kāifàng · to open (to the public)砍kǎn · to chop克kè · gram克服kèfú · to overcome (difficulties)

FAQs

捐 (juān) means “to donate” or “to contribute”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it juān: juān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 捐 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type juan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 捐 from the suggestions. Typing juan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
捐 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.