缠纏 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 纏, the traditional character: 缠 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Warring States script 戰國.秦
• Clerical script
• See all 6 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 为什么我们纠缠细枝末节而不进入正题呢？

  Why don't we stop arguing over these piddling matters and get to the issues at hand?

• 别缠我了!

  Stop bugging me!

• 护士轻柔地给我的头缠上绷带。

  The nurse gently put a bandage around my head.

• 汤姆看来难缠。

  Tom seems tough.

All example sentences with 缠