Chinese Character Wiki

纏

chán

wrap

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

thread

廛 sound component

廛  Sound component

chán

  

a store

Evolution

纏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
纏 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
纏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

缠 (纏) 

chán

wrap, wind around; tie, bind; to wind around; to wrap round; to coil; tangle; to involve; to bother; to annoy

Most common words with 纏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

缠

to coil

纠缠

to nag

缠绕

twisting

缠绵

touching (emotions)

缠身

to preoccupy sb

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ra[n]

drjen

chán

bind, wind


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.9310% of movies

1732nd most common character in movies

2046th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

缠

Unicode

U+7E8F

Shuowen

“纏，繞也。从糸，廛聲。”


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