chán
wrap
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 纏
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to coil | ||
to nag | ||
twisting | ||
touching (emotions) | ||
to preoccupy sb |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]ra[n] | drjen | chán | bind, wind |
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 | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E8F |
Shuowen | “纏,繞也。从糸,廛聲。” |
Sources
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