蟠
to coil
18 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,214 U+87E0
How 蟠 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
虫 (semantic, “insect”) + 番 (phonetic, fān)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 番
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 番 (fān) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 番 sound component | fān | to take turns, to repeat; to sow; a turn |
| 翻 | fān | to upset, to capsize, to flip over |
| 潘 | pān | a river that flows into the Han; surname |
| 蕃 | bō | abundant, flourishing; barbarians, foreigners |
| 幡 | fān | pennant, banner, streamer, flag |
| 鄱 | pó | a county and lake in Jiangxi province |
| 皤 | pó | white, grey; corpulent |
| 蹯 | fán | paw |
Words containing 蟠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蟠尾丝虫症 | pán wěi sī chóng zhèng | "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, … |
| 蟠尾丝虫 | pán wěi sī chóng | Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasi… |
| 蟠根错节 | pán gēn cuò jié | variant of 盤根錯節|盘根错节[pan2 gen1 cuo4 jie2] |
| 蟠石 | pán shí | variant of 磐石[pan2 shi2] |
| 蟠龙 | pán lóng | coiled dragon |
| 蟠曲 | pán qū | variant of 盤曲|盘曲[pan2 qu1] |
| 虎踞龙蟠 | hǔ jù lóng pán | lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain |
| 蟠据 | pán jù | variant of 盤踞|盘踞[pan2 ju4] |
| 蟠桃 | pán táo | flat peach (aka Saturn peach or donut peach); the peaches of immortality kept by Xi Wangmu… |
| 蟠踞 | pán jù | variant of 盤踞|盘踞[pan2 ju4] |