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盘旋

pán xuán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 盤旋

盘旋 (pán xuán) means "to spiral; to circle; to go around". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 盘旋 means

1. to spiral
2. to circle
3. to go around
4. to hover
5. to orbit

The characters in 盘旋

• 盘pántray; plate; dish; (finance) (bound form) market prices; (computing; bound form) disk
• 旋xuánto revolve; a loop; a circle

Example sentences

• 一团尘土与瓦砾腾空而起，在空中盘旋了数分钟。
  A cloud of dust and debris rose and lingered in the sky for a few minutes afterward.

Words starting with 盘旋

• 盘旋曲折pán xuán qū zhé(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously

Where 盘旋 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · pā–pán (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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