chán

wrap

Components
纟 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

silk

thread

㢆 sound component

  Sound component

chán

  

(same as 廛) living space for one family in ancient times

Evolution

缠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
缠 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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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 缠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to coil

纠缠

to nag

缠绕

twisting

缠绵

touching (emotions)

缠身

to preoccupy sb

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

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+7F20


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