Tom seems tough.
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缠
Traditional: 纏
chán
HSK 3.0 · 7–9
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chán · cin4 (Jyutping)
- to wind around
- to wrap round
- to coil
- tangle
- to involve
- to bother
- to annoy
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Character breakdown
缠
- Meaning
- wrap, wind around; tie, bind
- Radical
- 纟
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- ⿰纟㢆
- Cangjie
- VMIWG
- Four-corner
- 2011
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
Why don't we stop arguing over these piddling matters and get to the issues at hand?
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