绾

綰
wǎn
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to coil and tie up (hair, rope)
  2. 2 to roll up; to fasten together

Examples

HSK 7-9
Tā bǎ chángfà wǎn chéng yí gè fàjì.
She coiled her long hair into a bun.

Tips

history
绾 is a literary verb for coiling and tying things up (hair, cords). It rarely stands alone in modern speech, where you would say 盘 or 扎; it survives in set phrases like 绾发 and classical verse. Built on the silk radical 纟.
register
Literary and archaic. 绾 is mostly seen in poetry and historical novels, not in everyday Chinese.

Components

radical
纟 sī
silk; thread
The silk radical 纟 (left-side form of 糸) fits a verb about coiling cords and hair, and is the indexing radical of 绾.
phonetic
官 guān
official; (here) phonetic
The 官 element supplies the sound for 绾; it is purely phonetic here, with the reading drifted from the modern value.

Stroke Order

绾 wǎn