绕 — Chinese character
绕
rào
to entwine, to wind around; to orbit, to revolve
- Pinyin
- rào
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 纟 尧
- Formation
- pictophonetic — thread; meaning component 纟; sound component 尧
- Traditional
- 繞
Common words with 绕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 围绕 (圍繞) | wéi rào | to revolve around; to center on (an issue) |
| 环绕 (環繞) | huán rào | to surround; to circle |
| 绕过 (繞過) | rào guò | to detour; to bypass |
| 绕道 (繞道) | rào dào | to go by a roundabout route; to take a detour |
| 缠绕 (纏繞) | chán rào | twisting; to twine |
| 绕行 (繞行) | rào xíng | to take a circular (or circuitous) route; to do a circuit |
| 萦绕 (縈繞) | yíng rào | to linger on; to hover |
| 缭绕 (繚繞) | liáo rào | (of smoke from a chimney) to curl upward; (of a sound) to linger on |
| 绕组 (繞組) | rào zǔ | coil (in electric motor or transformer) |
| 绕口令 (繞口令) | rào kǒu lìng | tongue-twister |
| 绕路 (繞路) | rào lù | to make a detour; to take the long route |
| 绕圈子 (繞圈子) | rào quān zi | to go around in circles; to make a detour |
English words written with 绕
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.