to roll up / roll / classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)

= + : Zeus (ju) is applying hair rollers (卷) to the navy seal's (㔾) hair in the anthill (an3) using a modern machine. Suddenly he looses control of the machine which goes mad, and it threatens to devour all of the seal's hair. As the navy seal is already half-bald, he manages to push the off-button (关) of the machine.
scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll

= + : Zeus (ju) is about to take his final hair dresser exam. In the anthill's bathroom (an4) he reads up on how to use a hair roller (卷) machine in a thick hair dresser's volume (卷), especially on how to use the off button (关). He had a dream last night about a navy seal (㔾), but he can't quite remember what it was about.
to roll (up) / to sweep up / to carry on / roll

= + : Zeus (ju) is applying hair rollers (卷) to the navy seal's (㔾) hair in the anthill (an3) using a modern machine. Suddenly he looses control of the machine which goes mad, and it threatens to devour all of the seal's hair. As the navy seal is already half-bald, he manages to push the off-button (关) of the machine.
to roll up / to sweep up; to carry along / a roll / classifier for rolls, spools etc

卷 character breakdown

"seal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 26)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a member of the navy seals. A navy seal (㔾) is busy digging a hole with a plow (㇆) in the elevator's kitchen (e2) as part of his training. Joan of Arc (ji) thinks that this particular seal deserves to have an extra hart training, so she slyly shovels some earth back into the hole using a shovel (乚).
mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve

= + : A mean crocodile (丷) is chasing Gitta Giraffe (gu) in front of the anthill (an1). It almost caught up, when an angel (天) appears and pushes its off button (mnemonic symbol for 关) to save Gitta Giraffe.

Characters with 卷 as component

bound in a league
to curl up
to bend iron
to curl / curled

Words with 卷

lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom) / fig. to regroup and come back even stronger / to make a comeback
to hand in one's examination script
(embryology) to involute / involution / (neologism c. 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race / to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources)
lit. a thousand sutras, ten thousand scrolls; fig. the vast Buddhist canon
curved blade
to plunder the land and extort from the peasant / corrupt practice
cirrostratus (cloud) / also written 捲層雲|卷层云[juan3 ceng2 yun2]
to bundle up
cirrostratus (cloud) / also written 卷層雲|卷层云[juan3 ceng2 yun2]
adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in the shape of a big rhombus (Tw)

Sentences with 卷

卷 currently does not appear in any sentence.