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pán = p + an2
to coil
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How to pronounce 蟠

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.

= p initial

P is for Pinocchio.

By Matthias • updated 4 months ago
+ an2 final

In the anthill’s kitchen.

By Matthias • updated 5 months ago

蟠 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
variant of 蟲|虫[chong2]
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lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
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pān = p + an1
surname Pan
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fān = f + an1
foreign (non-Chinese) / barbarian / classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance) / classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc) / classifier for situations: kind, sort
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Characters with 蟠 as component

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

flat peach (aka Saturn peach or donut peach) / the peaches of immortality kept by Xi Wangmu 西王母
lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans

Sentences with 蟠

kàn
jiù
wáng
de
pán
táo
yuán
 
 
gěi
kān
guǎn

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pán

to coil

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