缠
to wind around; to wrap round; to coil; tangle; to involve; to bother; to annoy
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Dict coverage rank #1,937 U+7F20
How 缠 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
纟 (semantic, “thread”) + 㢆 (phonetic)
components: 纟 㢆
How to remember it
wind around · Heisig RSH #2384
thread + cave + computer
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 缠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缠夹不清 | chán jiā bù qīng | to muddle things together (idiom); to bother sb with annoying muddle-headed talk |
| 死缠烂打 | sǐ chán làn dǎ | (coll.) to pester; to harass |
| 缠头 | chán tóu | embroidered headband used as decoration by actors or in Hui ethnic group; to reward an act… |
| 缠手 | chán shǒu | troublesome; hard to deal with |
| 交缠 | jiāo chán | to intertwine; to intermingle |
| 缠身 | chán shēn | (of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one |
| 难缠 | nán chán | (usu. of people) difficult; demanding; troublesome; unreasonable; hard to deal with |
| 缠结 | chán jié | to coil around; knot; to entangle |
| 盘缠 | pán chán | to twine; to coil |
| 盘缠 | pán chan | money for a voyage; travel expenses |
| 缠足 | chán zú | foot-binding |
| 麻缠 | má chán | to pester |
| 纠缠不清 | jiū chán bù qīng | hopelessly muddled; impossible to unravel |
| 量子纠缠 | liàng zǐ jiū chán | quantum entanglement (physics) |
| 腰缠万贯 | yāo chán wàn guàn | lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money; extremely… |
| 胡缠 | hú chán | to pester; to involve sb unreasonably |
| 缠绵不已 | chán mián bù yǐ | to cling without letting go; to pester without end; to cling lovingly to each other |
| 缠络 | chán luò | to wind around; to twist and turn (of road or river) |
| 缠夹 | chán jiā | to annoy; to bother; to harass |
| 缠丝玛瑙 | chán sī mǎ nǎo | sardonyx (gemstone of brown-white striped chalcedony) |