绕

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

variant of 繞|绕[rao4], to rotate around / to spiral / to move around / to go round (an obstacle) / to by-pass / to make a detour

surname Yao / Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of Five legendary Emperors 五帝[wu3 di4], second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4]

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

to revolve around / to center on (an issue)

to surround / to circle / to revolve around

to go around in circles / to make a detour / (fig.) to beat about the bush

lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush

tongue-twister

to coil (around sth) / to twine / to weave (basketwork)

to curl up / to wind around

to go for a walk around / fig. to speak in a roundabout way

winding

hard to get one's mouth around / a tongue-twister

reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)

to wind / to coil / to spool / to loop around / winding

to go around one time / to do a circuit

meandering and circuitous (idiom); to go around in circles and never get anywhere

to orbit the earth

interference (of wave motion in physics)

to go for a walk around / fig. to speak in a roundabout way

lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush

thorny issue / tricky case

reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)