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Translingual
Han character
纏 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 女火戈田土 (VFIWG), four-corner 20914, composition ⿰糹廛)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 943, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28043
- Dae Jaweon: page 1383, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3467, character 3
- Unihan data for U+7E8F
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 纏
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*dan, *dans
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| 緾
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*dan
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| 躔
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*dan
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| 瀍
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*dan
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| 鄽
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*dan
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| 廛
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*dan
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *dan, *dans): semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 廛 (OC *dan).
Etymology
Cognate with Tibetan སྟར (star, “to tie fast”) (Schuessler, 2007, Hill, 2019).
Pronunciation
Note:
- ding2 - vernacular (e.g. 盤纏);
- deng2 - literary (e.g. 纏線);
- ceng2 - literary (classifier).
Note:
- tîⁿ - vernacular (“to wind; to tangle; to be in a tangle”);
- tiân - literary.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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纏
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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chán
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ drjen ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ra/
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| English
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bind, wind
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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纏
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纏
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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| No.
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1211
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1217
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Phonetic
component
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廛
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廛
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Rime
group
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元
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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纏
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邅
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Old
Chinese
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/*dan/
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/*dans/
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Definitions
纏
- to wind; to tie; to bind; to twine
- 纏著繃帶／缠着绷带 ― chán zhe bēngdài ― to wind bandage; to bandage
他把毛線纏成球。
他把毛线缠成球。 - Tā bǎ máoxiàn chán chéng qiú.
- He wound the wool yarn into a ball.
- to tangle
那兩股線怎麼纏在一起了呢？
那两股线怎么缠在一起了呢？ - Nà liǎng gǔ xiàn zěnme chán zàiyīqǐ le ne?
- How did the two strands of string become entangled?
- to pester; to harass
你幹嘛一直纏著我？
你干嘛一直缠着我？ - Nǐ gànma yīzhí chán zhe wǒ?
- Why do you keep pestering me?
2014, 廖偉志, “尚痛的記誌”, in 阿宅的心聲, performed by 蔡佳麟:
你哭的模樣像惡夢 伴阮夜夜纏
你哭的模样像恶梦 伴阮夜夜缠 - lí khàu ê bô͘-iūⁿ chhiūⁿ ok-bāng, phōaⁿ gún iā-iā tîⁿ
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (dialectal) to deal with
這個傢伙很難纏。
这个家伙很难缠。 - Zhège jiāhuǒ hěn nán chán.
- This fellow is very hard to deal with.
- (Hokkien) to be in a tangle; to get entangled
代誌傷濟，纏𣍐直。
代志伤济，缠𫧃直。 - Tāi-chì siuⁿ chōe, tîⁿ bōe ti̍t.
- There are too many things to do that it's endlessly in a tangle.
Synonyms
- (to wind): 繞／绕 (rào)
- (to pester):
- 叨擾 / 叨扰 (tāorǎo)
- 告擾 / 告扰 (gàorǎo) (formal, humble, polite)
- 吵擾 / 吵扰 (chǎorǎo)
- 困擾 / 困扰 (kùnrǎo)
- 干擾 (gānrǎo)
- 打亂 / 打乱 (dǎluàn)
- 打擾 / 打扰 (dǎrǎo)
- 打攪 / 打搅 (dǎjiǎo)
- 搗 / 捣 (dǎo) (literary, or in compounds)
- 擾亂 / 扰乱 (rǎoluàn)
- 攪 / 搅 (jiǎo)
- 攪亂 / 搅乱 (jiǎoluàn)
- 攪動 / 搅动 (jiǎodòng)
- 攪吵 / 搅吵 (Hokkien, Northern Wu)
- 攪擾 / 搅扰 (jiǎorǎo)
- 梟亂 / 枭乱 (xiāoluàn) (literary)
- 殽亂 / 淆乱 (xiáoluàn) (literary)
- 煩 / 烦 (fán)
- 煩擾 / 烦扰 (fánrǎo)
- 糾紛 / 纠纷 (jiūfēn) (literary)
- 糾纏 / 纠缠 (jiūchán)
- 經絆 / 经绊 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
- 纏擾 / 缠扰 (chánrǎo)
- 纏磨 / 缠磨 (chánmo) (colloquial)
- 纏繞 / 缠绕 (chánrào)
- 驚 / 惊 (jīng)
- 驚動 / 惊动 (jīngdòng)
- 驚吵 / 惊吵 (1cin-tshau5) (Shanghainese)
Compounds
References
- “纏”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- 李如龙 , 刘福铸 , 吴华英 , 黄国城 (2019) “缠”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 214.
Japanese
Kanji
纏
(Jinmeiyō kanji)
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Readings
- Go-on: でん (den)
- Kan-on: てん (ten)
- Kun: まく (maku, 纏く)、まつわる (matsuwaru, 纏わる)、まとい (matoi, 纏い)←まとひ (matofi, 纏ひ, historical)、まとう (matou, 纏う)←まとふ (matofu, 纏ふ, historical)、まとまる (matomaru, 纏まる)、まとめる (matomeru, 纏める)
Korean
Hanja
纏 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
纏: Hán Nôm readings: triền, dờn
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