盘陀

盤陀
pántuó
  1. twisted
  2. spiral
  3. uneven stones

CEDICT

  1. (literary) uneven; rough
  2. (literary) zigzag; twisted
  3. uneven; rough
  4. zigzag; twisted

Wiktionary

  1. 石头不平。
  2. 曲折回旋。《水浒传．第四七回》：「前门打紧，路杂难认，一遭都是盘陀路径，阔狭不等。」也作「盘蛇」。
  3. 马鞍。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 盘 pán
  1. tray; plate; dish
  2. (finance) (bound form) market prices
  3. (computing) (bound form) disk
  4. to coil (a rope, pigtail etc)
  5. to check; to examine; to investigate
  6. to transfer; to sell (property)
  7. to shift; to move (sth big and heavy)
  8. classifier for things resembling a plate or dish
  9. classifier for coils
  10. classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
2 陀 tuó
  1. (phonetic)
  2. declivity
  3. steep bank

Containing this entry

盘陀路 pántuólù
  1. twisting path
  2. tortuous road

Related entries

蜷曲 quánqū
  1. twisted
  2. coiled
  3. curled
哩溜歪斜 līliūwāixié
  1. crooked
  2. deformed
  3. twisted
旋涡 xuánwō
  1. spiral
  2. whirlpool
  3. eddy
  4. vortex
螺旋 luóxuán
  1. spiral
  2. helix
  3. screw
螺旋形 luóxuánxíng spiral
蜗牛壳是螺旋形的.

A snail's shell is spiral in form.

Source: Tatoeba

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