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HSK
7-9

wind around

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

chan2 chán

Meaning


Primary

wind around

Alternatives

winds around, wind, winding, wrap around, wrap, coil, tangle, tangled

Mnemonic


[ch-] Charlie Brown is [2] inside the [-an] pawn shop with a second-hand 广 shack on the store floor that he just bought as a present for Snoopy. To wrap it up he also bought a 里 Chinese mile of second-hand 纟 silk and 缠 winds around the 广 shack with it. Soon the 广 shack is wrapped with 纟 silk that 缠 winds around it.

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