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).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 宛转.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宛如 | wǎn rú | to be just like |
| 宛若 | wǎn ruò | to be just like |
| 宛然 | wǎn rán | as if; just like |
| 委宛 | wěi wǎn | variant of 委婉 (wěi wǎn) |
| 转移 (轉移) | zhuǎn yí | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) |
| 转变 (轉變) | zhuǎn biàn | to change; to transform |
| 转型 (轉型) | zhuǎn xíng | to undergo fundamental change; to transition; to transform; to update (to a new model of product) |
| 转化 (轉化) | zhuǎn huà | to 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.