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chán = ch + an2
to wind around / to wrap round / to coil / tangle / to involve / to bother / to annoy
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How to pronounce 缠

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= ch initial

Ch is for Charlie Chaplin.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago
+ an2 final

In the anthill’s kitchen.

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缠 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
= s + Ø1
"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]
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广
yǎn = y + an3
"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
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wide / numerous / to spread
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= li + Ø3
variant of 裡|里[li3]
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= li + Ø3
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]
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= li + Ø3
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
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Characters with 缠 as component

缠 is not used as a component in another character.
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Words with 缠

to be in a tangle / to nag
(of an illness, debt etc) to plague sb / to preoccupy sb / difficult to get rid of
(of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one

Sentences with 缠

缠 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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chán

to wind around / to wrap round / to coil / tangle / to involve / to bother / to annoy

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