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Keyword
to wind
  • to entwine
  • to wind around
  • to orbit
  • to revolve
Frequency
#1419
Strokes
9
Readings
rào100%
Mnemonic
纟 (thread) gives the meaning and 尧 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
围绕wéirào
to revolve around; to center on (an issue)
绕rào
to wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around; to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour; to confuse; to perplex
环绕huánrào
to surround; to circle; to revolve around
绕过ràoguò
to detour; to bypass; to circumvent; to avoid; to wind around (of a road etc)
绕道ràodào
to go by a roundabout route; to take a detour; (medicine or civil engineering) bypass
缠绕chánrào
twisting; to twine; to wind; to pester; to bother
绕行ràoxíng
to take a circular (or circuitous) route; to do a circuit; (of a planet) to orbit; (of a sailor) to circumnavigate; to take a detour; to bypass
萦绕yíngrào
to linger on; to hover; to encircle
缭绕liáorào
(of smoke from a chimney) to curl upward; (of a sound) to linger on
绕组ràozǔ
coil (in electric motor or transformer)
绕路ràolù
to make a detour; to take the long route
绕圈子ràoquānzi
to go around in circles; to make a detour; (fig.) to beat about the bush
盘绕pánrào
to coil (around sth); to twine; to weave (basketwork)
卷绕juǎnrào
to wind; to coil; to spool; to loop around; winding
绕弯子ràowānzi
lit. to go on a long detour; fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point; to beat about the bush
余音绕梁yúyīnràoliáng
reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
绕膝ràoxī
(children) run around parent's knees; fig. to stay to look after one's elderly parents
旋绕xuánrào
to curl up; to wind around
绕弯ràowān
to go for a walk around; fig. to speak in a roundabout way
绕梁三日ràoliángsānrì
reverberates around the rafters for three days (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
绕射ràoshè
(physics) to diffract
绕流ràoliú
turbulence (in fluid mechanics)