蟠
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to coil
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 虫 +12
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 蟠
- Common rank
- #3,214
- Unicode
- U+87E0
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 蟠
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蟠尾丝虫症 | "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, … | |
| 蟠尾丝虫 | Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasi… | |
| 蟠根错节 | variant of 盤根錯節|盘根错节[pan2 gen1 cuo4 jie2] | |
| 蟠石 | variant of 磐石[pan2 shi2] | |
| 蟠龙 | coiled dragon | |
| 蟠曲 | variant of 盤曲|盘曲[pan2 qu1] | |
| 虎踞龙蟠 | lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain | |
| 蟠据 | variant of 盤踞|盘踞[pan2 ju4] | |
| 蟠桃 | flat peach (aka Saturn peach or donut peach); the peaches of immortality kept by Xi Wangmu… | |
| 蟠踞 | variant of 盤踞|盘踞[pan2 ju4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 番 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 番 sound part | to take turns, to repeat; to sow; a turn | |
| 翻 | to upset, to capsize, to flip over | |
| 潘 | a river that flows into the Han; surname | |
| 蕃 | abundant, flourishing; barbarians, foreigners | |
| 幡 | pennant, banner, streamer, flag | |
| 鄱 | a county and lake in Jiangxi province | |
| 皤 | white, grey; corpulent | |
| 蹯 | paw |