"Winding" • Chinese-English Dictionary

DICTIONARY OPTIONS
CHARACTERS : Simplified Traditional
PHONETIC : Pinyin Bopomofo EFEO Wade-Giles Yale
» Search by Radical
曲折 qū zhé winding / (fig.) complicated
乙 yǐ second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方[yi3 fang1], as opposed to 甲方[jia3 fang1]) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°
迤逦 yǐ lǐ meandering / winding
卷绕 juǎn rào to wind / to coil / to spool / to loop around / winding
回绕 huí rào winding
委 wěi to entrust / to cast aside / to shift (blame etc) / to accumulate / roundabout / winding / dejected / listless / committee member / council / end / actually / certainly
宛 wǎn winding / as if
纡 yū winding / twisting
逦 lǐ winding
回廊 huí láng winding corridor / cloister / ambulatory (covered walkway around a cloister)
弯道 wān dào winding road / road curve
弯路 wān lù winding road / roundabout route / detour / (fig.) wrong way (of doing sth)
逶迤 wēi yí (literary) (of roads, rivers, mountain ranges etc) long and winding / meandering
羊肠小道 yáng cháng xiǎo dào road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom) / narrow and winding road / fig. complicated and tricky job
股 gǔ thigh / part of a whole / portion of a sum / (finance) stock / share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1] / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions
旋梯 xuán tī spiral stairs / winding stairs (gymnastic equipment)
嵼 chǎn winding mountain path
兔径 tù jìng narrow winding path
左弯右拐 zuǒ wān yòu guǎi to follow a winding path
旋转指标 xuán zhuǎn zhǐ biāo winding number
曲里拐弯 qū lǐ guǎi wān winding and turning (idiom)
枉径 wǎng jìng winding lane
羊肠小径 yáng cháng xiǎo jìng winding road (twisting and turning like a sheep's intestine)
蚰蜒路 yóu yan lù lit. centipede's path / fig. narrow winding road
转变抹角 zhuǎn biàn mò jiǎo lit. (of road) winding and turning (idiom) / to speak in a roundabout way / to equivocate / to beat about the bush
绕线 rào xiàn coil winding
长纤维卷绕机  filament winding machine / winding machine / filament winder
𡶴 chǎn winding mountain path
表冠 biǎo guān watch crown / winding crown
Chinese Tones