pán
verb #24,349

Meanings

  1. 1 to coil
  2. 2 to curl around (of a dragon or snake)

Examples

Yī tiáo jiāolóng pán yú shān dǐng zhī shàng.
A dragon was coiled atop the mountain.
Pánlóng wén shì Zhōngguó gǔdài cháng jiàn de zhuāngshì tú'àn.
The coiled-dragon motif is a common decorative pattern in ancient China.

Tips

register
is primarily a classical/literary character. In modern Chinese it appears mostly in set compounds such as (pánlóng, coiled dragon) and (pántáo, the immortality peach in Chinese mythology).

Stroke Order

pán