Chinese symbol for “lingering”
缠绵
chán mián
Traditional: 纏綿
touching (emotions); lingering (illness)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for lingering is 缠绵 (chán mián), defined as: touching (emotions); lingering (illness).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “lingering”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 缠绵.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 纠缠 (糾纏) | jiū chán | to be in a tangle; to nag |
| 缠身 (纏身) | chán shēn | (of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one |
| 缠绕 (纏繞) | chán rào | twisting; to twine |
| 难缠 (難纏) | nán chán | (usu. of people) difficult; demanding |
| 缠足 (纏足) | chán zú | foot-binding |
| 海绵 (海綿) | hǎi mián | (zoology) sea sponge; (esp.) dried sea sponge |
| 绵羊 (綿羊) | mián yáng | sheep |
| 绵延 (綿延) | mián yán | (esp. of a mountain range) to be continuous; to stretch long and unbroken |
See also: Japanese symbol for “lingering”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.