绞

to twist (strands into a thread) / to entangle / to wring / to hang (by the neck) / to turn / to wind / classifier for skeins of yarn

to hand over / to deliver / to pay (money) / to turn over / to make friends / to intersect (lines) / variant of 跤[jiao1]

"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

to hang (i.e. execute by hanging) / to strangle

to execute by hanging

to rack one's brains

capstan

gibbet / hanging post

angina

gallows / gibbet

to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting / (fig.) to snuff out

a noose for hanging criminals

sharp pain / cramp / griping pain / colic / angina, cf 心絞痛|心绞痛

meat grinder

twisted pair (cabling)

winch / windlass

to be hanged / to hang oneself

minced meat

reamer

to feel a pain like a knife being twisted in one's heart (idiom)

jiaogulan (Gynostemma pentaphyllum)

to rack one's brains

to wring