顽 (頑) wán
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wán
adjective
obstinate; stubborn; recalcitrant
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 顽固 (ABC 'wán' 頑 bf 2; NCCED '頑' 2; Unihan '頑') -
wán
adjective
stupid
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (ABC 'wán' 頑 bf 1; NCCED '頑' 3) -
wán
adjective
naughty
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As in 顽皮 (ABC 'wán' 頑 bf 3; NCCED '頑' 4) -
wán
adjective
tough; firm
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED '頑' 4) -
wán
verb
to play
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Same as 玩 (NCCED '頑' 1)
Contained in
- 顽钝(頑鈍) blunt (instrument); stupid; thick-headed
- 顽匪(頑匪) gangster; bandit
- 顽皮(頑皮) naughty
- 顽石(頑石) a stone; a boulder ; a stupid person
- 顽童(頑童) urchin
- 顽民(頑民) unruly people; rebellious subjects; disloyal citizens
- 顽强(頑強) tenacious; indomitable
- 死顽固(死頑固) very stubborn; very stubborn person; die-hard
- 思想顽钝(思想頑鈍) blunt thinking; apathy
- 顽梗(頑梗) obstinate; persistent
- 凶顽(兇頑) fierce and uncontrollable
- 顽劣(頑劣) stubborn and obstreperous; naughty and mischievous
- 冥顽不灵(冥頑不靈) stupid; stubborn; pigheaded
- 顽固(頑固) stubborn; obstinate
- 顽症(頑症) stubborn illness; disease that is difficult to treat
- 奸顽(奸頑) a devious villain
- 顽愚(頑愚) mentally deficient
- 愚顽(愚頑) ignorant and stubborn
- 冥顽(冥頑) stupid; stubborn
- 顽疾(頑疾) ineradicable disease; fig. deep-seated problem; perennial problem
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 20 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 27
- 第二回 Chapter 59 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 第二回 Chapter 57 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 第二回 Chapter 63 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
- 第二回 Chapter 70 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 8
- 第二回 Chapter 49 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 8
- 第二回 Chapter 94 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 8
- 第二回 Chapter 62 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 7
- 第五十五回 Chapter 55 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 7
- 第二回 Chapter 15 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 6
Collocations
- 顽凶 (頑兇) 頑凶 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《本紀‧五帝本紀》 Annals - Annals of the Five Emperors — count: 14
- 顽蔽 (頑蔽) 頑蔽難啟 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷五十三 吳書八 張嚴程闞薛傳 Volume 53: Book of Wu 8 - Biographies of Zhang, Yan, Cheng, Kan, and Xue — count: 10
- 顽嚚 (頑嚚) 頑嚚不友 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 10
- 凶顽 (兇頑) 況皓凶頑 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四十八 吳書三 三嗣主傳 Volume 48: Book of Wu 3 - Biographies of the three heirs — count: 9
- 顽鄙 (頑鄙) 素性頑鄙 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二 顯宗孝明帝紀 Volume 2: Annals of Emperor Xianzong Xiaoming — count: 7
- 顽𫘤 (頑騃) 其頑騃若此 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷五十一 列傳第十一 宗室 Volume 51 Biographies 11: Zong shi — count: 7
- 顽疏 (頑疏) 而以頑疏 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷四十二 列傳第十二 王渾 王濬 唐彬 Volume 42 Biographies 12: Wang Hun; Wang Jun; Tang Bin — count: 5
- 顽嚣 (頑囂) 頑囂之性也 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷45 列傳第10 文四子 Volume 45 Biographies 10: Wen Sizi — count: 4
- 臣顽 (臣頑) 如臣頑蔽 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷六十五 吳書二十 王樓賀韋華傳 Volume 65: Book of Wu 20 - Biographies of Wang, Lou, He, Wei, and Hua — count: 4
- 顽人 (頑人) 故應有殷之頑人 — History of the Northern Dynasties 北史, 卷四十六 列傳第三十四: 孫紹 張普惠 成淹 范紹 劉桃符 鹿悆 張燿 劉道斌 董紹 馮元興 Volume 46 Biographies 34: Sun Shao, Zhang Puhui, Cheng Yan, Fan Shao, Liu Taofu, Lu Yu, Zhang Yao, Liu Daobin, Dong Shao, Feng Yuanxing — count: 4