缠 · chán
wrap, wind around; tie, bind
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
wrap, wind around; tie, bind
- Mandarin
- chán
- Cantonese
- cin4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7F20
- Radical
- 纟 · 120
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 缠
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
纏
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- chán
- kCantonese
- cin4
- kDefinition
- wrap, wind around; tie, bind
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 120'.10
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+7E8F
- kTGH
- 2013:3046
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chán 0117.090
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chán 037.010
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- chán(32)