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缠绕

chán rào

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

缠绕 (chán rào) means "twisting; to twine; to wind". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 缠绕 means

1. twisting
2. to twine
3. to wind
4. to pester
5. to bother

The characters in 缠绕

• 缠chánto wind around; to wrap round; to coil
• 绕ràoto wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around

Example sentences

• 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 缠绕

• 缠绕茎chán rào jīngvine; twining stem

Where 缠绕 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chān–chǎn (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chán rào correctly.
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