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Chinese symbol for “sinuous”

宛转
wǎn zhuǎn
Traditional: 宛轉
sinuous; meandering; to take a circuitous route; to toss about

The closest CC-CEDICT match for sinuous is 宛转 (wǎn zhuǎn), defined as: sinuous; meandering; to take a circuitous route; to toss about; vicissitudes; variant of 婉转 (wǎn zhuǎn).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

宛 wǎn
to seem; as if; crooked
radical 40 ⼧ · 8 strokes
转 zhuǎn
to move, to convey; to turn, to revolve, to circle; to forward mail
radical 159 ⾞ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 宛转.

WordPinyinMeaning
宛如wǎn rúto be just like
宛若wǎn ruòto be just like
宛然wǎn ránas if; just like
委宛wěi wǎnvariant of 委婉 (wěi wǎn)
转移 (轉移)zhuǎn yíto shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc)
转变 (轉變)zhuǎn biànto change; to transform
转型 (轉型)zhuǎn xíngto undergo fundamental change; to transition; to transform; to update (to a new model of product)
转化 (轉化)zhuǎn huàto change; to turn; to convert; (genetics) to transform

See also: Japanese symbol for “sinuous”.

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.

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