盤陀

盘陀
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. 石頭不平。
  2. 曲折回旋。《水滸傳．第四七回》：「前門打緊，路雜難認，一遭都是盤陀路徑，闊狹不等。」也作「盤蛇」。
  3. 馬鞍。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 盤 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

盤陀路 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
旋渦 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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