HSK 6 · Verbs

缠绕 chánrào “to wind around” in Chinese

Traditional 纏繞

What 缠绕 means

  1. to wind around
  2. to entangle
  3. twisting
  4. to twine
  5. to wind
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to pester
  • to bother

How to say 缠绕

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale缠chán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale绕rào4th tone, falling

缠绕 in a sentence

  1. 耳机线缠绕在一起了。

    Ěrjī xiàn chánrào zài yìqǐ le.

    The earphone cables are all tangled up.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 她把彩带缠绕在礼物上。

    Tā bǎ cǎidài chánrào zài lǐwù shàng.

    She wrapped the ribbon around the present.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 缠绕 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 缠 (chán) with each of its parts in a different colour
缠chánto wind around
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 㢆storeSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 㢆 () hints at the sound. Compare it with chán.

The character 绕 (rào) with each of its parts in a different colour
绕ràoto wind
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 尧a legendary ancient emperor-sage · YáoSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 尧 (Yáo) hints at the sound. Compare it with rào.

How to write 缠绕

缠 13 strokes · 绕 9 strokes

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缠绕 (chánrào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 缠绕 (chánrào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 缠绕

Words with 绕

绕rào · to wind围绕wéirào · to revolve around

More words: Common Verbs

搀chān · to support by the arm颤抖chàndǒu · to tremble敞开chǎngkāi · to open wide尝试chángshì · to try超越chāoyuè · to surpass呈现chéngxiàn · to appear陈列chénliè · to display衬托chèntuō · to set off

FAQs

缠绕 (chánrào) means “to wind around” or “to entangle”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chánrào: chán with a 2nd tone, then rào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 缠绕 is written 纏繞. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chanrao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 缠绕 from the suggestions. Typing chanrao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
缠绕 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.