Chinese symbol for “twine”
盘缠
pán chán
Traditional: 盤纏
to twine; to coil
The closest CC-CEDICT match for twine is 盘缠 (pán chán), defined as: to twine; to coil.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “twine”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缠绕 (纏繞) | chán rào | twisting; to twine |
| 合股线 (合股線) | hé gǔ xiàn | twine |
| 细绳 (細繩) | xì shéng | string; twine |
| 盘绕 (盤繞) | pán rào | to coil (around sth); to twine |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 盘缠.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 键盘 (鍵盤) | jiàn pán | keyboard |
| 地盘 (地盤) | dì pán | domain; territory under one's control |
| 硬盘 (硬盤) | yìng pán | hard disk |
| 盘子 (盤子) | pán zi | tray; plate |
| 光盘 (光盤) | guāng pán | compact disc (CD); DVD; CD-ROM; measure word: 片 (piàn), 张 (zhāng) |
| 全盘 (全盤) | quán pán | overall; comprehensive |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “twine”.
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.