"Circle" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 循环 | xún huán | to cycle / to circulate / circle / loop |   |
| 盘旋 | pán xuán | to spiral / to circle / to go around / to hover / to orbit | |
| 圆 |  yuán | circle / round / circular / spherical / (of the moon) full / unit of Chinese currency (yuan) / tactful / to make consistent and whole (the narrative of a dream or a lie) | |
| 圈 | quān | circle / ring / loop / classifier for loops, orbits, laps of race etc / CL:個|个[ge4] / to surround / to circle | |
| 环绕 | huán rào | to surround / to circle / to revolve around | |
| 圈子 | quān zi | circle / ring / (social) circle | |
| 圆圈 | yuán quān | circle | |
| 框框 | kuàng kuàng | to frame / to circle / pattern / convention / restriction | |
| 兜圈子 | dōu quān zi | to encircle / to go around / to circle / to beat about the bush | |
| 旋 | xuán | to revolve / a loop / a circle | |
| 框 | kuàng | frame (e.g. door frame) / casing / fig. framework / template / to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth) / to frame / to restrict / Taiwan pr. [kuang1] | |
| 抟 | tuán | to roll up into a ball with one's hands / spiral / circle / variant of 團|团[tuan2] | |
| 圜 | huán | circle / encircle | |
| 圜 | yuán | circle / round | |
| 翔回 | xiáng huí | to circle (in the sky) | |
| 邪恶八魔阵 | xié è bā mó zhèn | Circle | |
| 飞翔 | fēi xiáng | to circle in the air / to soar | |
| 转动 | zhuàn dòng | to rotate (about an axis) / to revolve / to turn / to move in a circle / to gyrate | |
| 围观 | wéi guān | to stand in a circle and watch | |
| 圈圈 | quān quan | to draw a circle / cliques / circles | |
| 圈内 | quān nèi | close circle / community / (esp.) the show business milieu | |
| 怪圈 | guài quān | vicious circle / (abnormal) phenomenon | |
| 围坐 | wéi zuò | to sit in a circle / seated around (a narrator) | |
| 圆弧 | yuán hú | arc of a circle / circular arc | |
| 环线 | huán xiàn | ring road / circle line (e.g. rail or subway) | |
| 小圆 | xiǎo yuán | small circle | |
| 周而复始 | zhōu ér fù shǐ | lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom) / to move in circles / the wheel comes full circle | |
| 大圆 | dà yuán | great circle (in spherical geometry) | |
| 圆心 | yuán xīn | center of circle | |
| 圆环 | yuán huán | rotary / traffic circle / ring | |
| 交游 | jiāo yóu | to have friendly relationships / circle of friends | |
| 圆周率 | yuán zhōu lu:4 | (math.) the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (π) | |
| 北极圈 | Běi jí quān | Arctic Circle | |
| 近臣 | jìn chén | member of a monarch's inner ministerial circle (old) | |
| 转 | zhuàn | to revolve / to turn / to circle about / to walk about / classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm / classifier for repeated actions | |
| 画地为牢 | huà dì wéi láo | lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom) / fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities | |
| 恶性循环 | è xìng xún huán | vicious circle | |
| 餟 | zhuì | circle shrines and make sacrifices | |
| 南极圈 | nán jí juàn | Antarctic Circle | |
| 成圈 | chéng quān | to form a circle, ring or loop | |
| 政圈 | zhèng quān | government circle / political circle | |
| 周三径一 | zhōu sān jìng yī | circumference of a circle is proverbially three times its radius | |
| 埃夫伯里 | Aī fū bó lǐ | Avebury (stone circle near Stonehenge) | |
| 大圆圈 | dà yuán quān | great circle (in spherical geometry) | |
| 斯托肯立石圈 | Sī tuō kěn lì shí quān | Stonehenge stone circle | |
| 斯通亨治石栏 | Sī tōng hēng zhì shí lán | Stonehenge stone circle | |
| 画圆 | huà yuán | to draw a circle | |
| 索尔兹伯里石环 | Suǒ ěr zī bó lǐ shí huán | Stonehenge / Salisbury stone circle | |
| 终而复始 | zhōng ér fù shǐ | lit. the end comes back to the start (idiom) / the wheel comes full circle | |
| 麦田怪圈 | mài tián guài quān | crop circle | |
| 外接圆 | wài jiē yuán | circumscribed circle (of a polygon) | |
| 四方理事会 | Elders' Circle of the Four Directions (Elders' Circle) | | |
| 地平经圈 | vertical circle | | |
| 垂直圈仪 | vertical circle | | |
| 纬度圈 | circle of latitude | | |
| 伊斯兰社区阿德米拉尔家庭圈子 | Admiral Family Circle Islamic Community | | |
| 美瞳 | měi tóng | cosmetic contact lens / big eye contact lens / circle contact lens | |
| 放大片 | fàng dà piàn | (Tw) cosmetic contact lens / big eye contact lens / circle contact lens | |
| 击鼓传花 | jī gǔ chuán huā | beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten &ndash / when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc) | |
| 圈定 | quān dìng | to highlight sth by drawing a circle around it / (fig.) to designate / to delineate | |
