纏

chán = ch + an2

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

缠 = 纟 + 广 + 里 : Just as Charlie Chaplin (ch) entered the anthill (an2) he gets entangled (缠) into a mass of parachuting (广) silk worms (纟) which throw sunflowers (里) at him. Charlie Chaplin thinks that the silk worms are quite annoying (缠).

纏 character breakdown

纏
- 廛
- 糹
  - 幺
    - 厶
  - 小
    - 亅
    - 八
      - 丿
      - ㇏

chán = ch + an2

market place

si̅ = s + Ø1

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

A silk worm.

Characters with 纏 as component

纏 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 纏

(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

twisting / to twine / to wind / to pester / to bother

to pester endlessly (idiom) / an annoying troublemaker

lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money / extremely wealthy / loaded

vine / twining stem

(of a person) sad beyond words (idiom) / (of music, literature etc) poignant / very sentimental

embroidered headband used as decoration by actors or in Hui ethnic group / to reward an actor with brocade headband

to cling without letting go / to pester without end / to cling lovingly to each other

to pester / to involve sb unreasonably

to pester / to bother endlessly

quantum entanglement (physics)

(usu. of people) difficult / demanding / troublesome / unreasonable / hard to deal with

to pester

foot-binding

Sentences with 纏

纏 currently does not appear in any sentence.