绕 遶
绕遶 in English
- to wind / to coil (thread) / to rotate around / to spiral / to move around / to go round (an obstacle) / to by-pass / to make a detour / to confuse / to perplex
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 遶, the traditional character: 绕 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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你最喜欢哪一个绕口令？
What's your favorite tongue twister?
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我昨晚一整夜没睡好，因为有许多事情萦绕在我的心头。
I couldn't sleep well last night because there were lots of things on my mind.
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游艇绕浮标航行。
The yacht sailed around a buoy.
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现代交通使我们能在几天内环绕地球。
Modern travel enables us to go around the world in a few days.