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繞

rào

entwine

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 堯 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

堯 sound component

堯  Sound component

yáo

  

legendary ancient emperor-sage

Evolution

繞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
繞 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
繞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

绕 (繞) 

rào

entwine; wind around; surround; to wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around; to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour; to confuse; to perplex

Most common words with 繞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

绕

to wind

围绕

to revolve around

环绕

to surround

绕道

detour

缠绕

twisting

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ŋ]ewʔ (< uvular?)

nyewX

rǎo

curved

*[ŋ]ewʔ-s (< uvular?)

nyewH

rǎo

to wind round


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 19.0293% of movies

1586th most common character in movies

1485th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

绕

Unicode

U+7E5E

Shuowen

“繞，纏也。从糸，堯聲。”


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