蟠

pán
to coil

CEDICT

  1. (literary) to extend everywhere
  2. (literary) to wind; to coil; to encircle
  3. (obsolete)
  4. to extend everywhere
  5. to wind; to coil; to encircle

Wiktionary

  1. 盤伏、盤曲。
  2. 彎曲的、扭曲的。

重編國語辭典

Containing this entry

虎踞龍蟠 hǔjùlóngpán lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
蟠尾絲蟲 pánwěisīchóng Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans
蟠據 pánjù variant of 盤踞 pánjù
蟠曲 pánqū variant of 盤曲 pánqū
蟠根錯節 pángēncuòjié variant of 盤根錯節 pángēncuòjié
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Related entries

盤繞 pánrào
  1. to coil (around sth)
  2. to twine
  3. to weave (basketwork)
卷繞 juǎnrào
  1. to wind
  2. to coil
  3. to spool
  4. to loop around
  5. winding
盤纏 pánchán
  1. to twine
  2. to coil
繞 rào
  1. to wind
  2. to coil (thread)
  3. to rotate around
  4. to spiral
  5. to move around
  6. to go round (an obstacle)
  7. to by-pass
  8. to make a detour
  9. to confuse
  10. to perplex
狗绕着桌子走。

The dog is walking around the table.

Source: Tatoeba

蜷局 quánjú
  1. to curl up
  2. to coil
纏 chán
  1. to wind around
  2. to wrap round
  3. to coil
  4. tangle
  5. to involve
  6. to bother
  7. to annoy
别缠我了!

Stop bugging me!

Source: Tatoeba

挽 wǎn
  1. to pull
  2. to draw (a cart or a bow)
  3. to roll up
  4. to coil
  5. to carry on the arm
  6. to lament the dead
  7. (fig.) to pull against
  8. to recover
我看见他们胳膊挽着胳膊地走路。

I saw them walking arm in arm.

Source: Tatoeba

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)
他叫了一盘杂碎。

He ordered a chop suey.

Source: Tatoeba