蟠 — Chinese character
蟠
pán
to occupy; to coil; curled up, coiled
- Pinyin
- pán
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 虫 番
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 番
- Japanese
- 蟠 as a kanji
Common words with 蟠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蟠龙 (蟠龍) | pán lóng | coiled dragon |
| 蟠桃 | pán táo | flat peach (aka Saturn peach or donut peach); the peaches of immortality kept by Xi Wangmu 西王母 |
| 虎踞龙蟠 (虎踞龍蟠) | hǔ jù lóng pán | lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain |
| 蟠尾丝虫 (蟠尾絲蟲) | pán wěi sī chóng | Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans |
| 蟠据 (蟠據) | pán jù | variant of 盘踞 (pán jù) |
| 蟠曲 | pán qū | variant of 盘曲 (pán qū) |
| 蟠根错节 (蟠根錯節) | pán gēn cuò jié | variant of 盘根错节 (pán gēn cuò jié) |
| 蟠石 | pán shí | variant of 磐石 (pán shí) |
| 蟠踞 | pán jù | variant of 盘踞 (pán jù) |
蟠 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.