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蜒

yán
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 winding
  2. 2 wriggling

Examples

小溪蜿蜒曲折地流过平原。
Xiǎoxī wānyán qūzhé de liúguò píngyuán.
The stream winds and twists across the plain.
长城蜿蜒在山岭上。
Chángchéng wānyán zài shānlǐng shàng.
The Great Wall snakes over the mountain ridges.

Tips

usage
Bound character: it lives almost entirely inside 蜿蜒 (winding). Learn the pair, not the single 蜒, which you will not meet alone in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
虫 chóng
insect; worm
Left-side insect radical 虫. It marks the snake-like, crawling image behind 蜒 when it pairs up in 蜿蜒.
phonetic
延 yán
to extend; prolong
Right side 延 gives both the exact sound and a real clue to meaning: 延 means 'to extend', and a snaking line is exactly something that extends and stretches out.

Stroke Order

蜒 yán