rào

entwine

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

is a component form of .

尧 sound component

  Sound component

yáo

  

a legendary ancient emperor-sage

Evolution

绕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
绕 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
绕 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

rào

entwine; wind around; surround; to wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around; to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour; to confuse; to perplex

() 

rào

variant of |[rào], to rotate around

Most common words with 绕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to wind

围绕

to revolve around

环绕

to surround

绕道

detour

缠绕

twisting

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 19.0293% of movies

1586th most common character in movies

1485th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+7ED5


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