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缠

chán

HSK 6 Character Traditional 纏

What 缠 means

1. to wind around
2. to wrap round
3. to coil
4. tangle
5. to involve
6. to bother
7. to annoy

Example sentences

• 别缠我了!
  Stop bugging me!
• 汤姆看来难缠。
  Tāngmǔ kànlai nánchán.
  Tom seems tough.
• 护士轻柔地给我的头缠上绷带。
  The nurse gently put a bandage around my head.
• 为什么我们纠缠细枝末节而不进入正题呢？
  Why don't we stop arguing over these piddling matters and get to the issues at hand?
• 为什么我们不停止纠缠细枝末节而进入正题呢？
  Wèishénme wǒmen bù tíngzhǐ jiūchán xìzhīmòjié ér jìnrù zhèng tí ne?
  Why don't we stop arguing over these piddling matters and get to the issues at hand?
• 她是一个非常娇小的女孩，但她真的自己抱着中音萨克斯。不过，我忍不住想像这个东西缠绕包裹住她，并像蟒蛇般的吞噬她。
  Tā shì yī gè fēicháng jiāoxiǎo de nǚhái, dàn tā zhēn de zìjǐ bào zhe zhōng yīn sàkèsī. bùguò, wǒ rěnbuzhù xiǎngxiàng zhège dōngxi chánrào bāoguǒ zhù tā, bìng xiàng mǎngshé bān de tūnshì tā.
  She was a tiny girl, but she really held her own on the baritone sax. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but imagine the thing wrapping itself around her and devouring her like a boa constrictor.

Words starting with 缠

• 缠绕chán ràotwisting; to twine; to wind
• 缠绵chán miántouching (emotions); lingering (illness)
• 缠身chán shēn(of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one
• 缠夹chán jiāto annoy; to bother; to harass
• 缠手chán shǒutroublesome; hard to deal with
• 缠扰chán rǎoto harass; to disturb
• 缠结chán jiéto coil around; knot; to entangle
• 缠络chán luòto wind around; to twist and turn (of road or river)
• 缠足chán zúfoot-binding
• 缠头chán tóuembroidered headband used as decoration by actors or in Hui ethnic group…
• 缠绕茎chán rào jīngvine; twining stem
• 缠夹不清chán jiā bù qīngto muddle things together (idiom); to bother sb with annoying muddle-headed talk
• 缠丝玛瑙chán sī mǎ nǎosardonyx (gemstone of brown-white striped chalcedony)
• 缠绵不已chán mián bù yǐto cling without letting go; to pester without end; to cling lovingly to each other
• 缠绵悱恻chán mián fěi cè(of a person) sad beyond words (idiom); (of music, literature etc) poignant…
• 缠夹二先生chán jiā èr xiān shengannoying muddle-headed person who gabbles unintelligibly

Words containing 缠

• 纠缠jiū chánto be in a tangle; to nag
• 纠缠不清jiū chán bù qīnghopelessly muddled; impossible to unravel
• 盘缠pán chánto twine; to coil
• 腰缠万贯yāo chán wàn guànlit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money…
• 交缠jiāo chánto intertwine; to intermingle
• 牵缠qiān chánto involve; to entangle sb
• 粘缠nián chánto stick closely to; cloying
• 胡缠hú chánto pester; to involve sb unreasonably
• 蛮缠mán chánto pester; to bother endlessly
• 难缠nán chán(usu. of people) difficult; demanding; troublesome
• 麻缠má chánto pester
• 死缠烂打sǐ chán làn dǎ(colloquial) to pester; to harass
• 胡搅蛮缠hú jiǎo mán chán(idiom) to pester endlessly
• 量子纠缠liàng zǐ jiū chánquantum entanglement (physics)
• 厮缠sī chánto pester

Characters that look like 缠

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 辖xiálinchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an axle); (bound form) to govern…
• 镀dùto plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated
• 琥hǔused in 琥珀
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟
• 缥piāoused in 缥渺; Taiwan pr. piǎo
• 潴zhūpool; pond

Sounds the same

Read chán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 馋gluttonous; greedy; to have a craving
• 禅dhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)
• 澶still (as of water); still water
• 蝉cicada
• 单used in 单于
• 婵used in 婵娟
• 蟾toad ("chán" represents the sound of its croaking)…
• 谗to slander; to defame; to misrepresent
• 潺flow; trickle (of water)
• 巉(literary) steep; rugged; jagged; precipitous
• 毚cunning; artful
• 磛cliff; peak