盘旋曲折 — Chinese idiom
盘旋曲折
pán xuán qū zhé
Traditional: 盤旋曲折
Meaning
- (of a road etc) to wind circuitously
Character by character
- 盘pántray, plate, dish; to examine
- 旋xuánto revolve, to orbit, to return
- 曲qūcrooked, bent; wrong, false
- 折zhéto break, to snap; to fold, to bend; to bow; humbl
Idioms sharing a character
- 一盘散沙 yī pán sǎn shā
- 打小算盘 dǎ xiǎo suàn pán
- 杯盘狼藉 bēi pán láng jí
- 沙盘推演 shā pán tuī yǎn
- 盘根问底 pán gēn wèn dǐ
- 盘根究底 pán gēn jiū dǐ
- 盘根错节 pán gēn cuò jié
- 盘龙卧虎 pán lóng wò hǔ
- 虎踞龙盘 hǔ jù lóng pán
- 天旋地转 tiān xuán dì zhuàn
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