纏
chán HSK7

wrap

缠 (纏) chán
pester verb
to bother, annoy, or harass someone persistently

那孩子缠着我，非要我带他去公园。

nà hái​zi chán zhe wǒ, fēi yào wǒ dài tā qù gōng​yuán.

The child pestered me to take him to the park.

wind verb
to wind around, wrap round, or coil

他用胶带在盒子上缠了好几圈。

tā yòng jiāo​dài zài hé​zi shàng chán le hǎo​jǐ quān.

He wrapped the tape around the box several times.

tangle verb
to tangle or become involved in a difficult or complicated situation

他被缠进了一场麻烦的官司中。

tā bèi chán jìn le yī cháng má​fan de guān​si zhōng.

He got entangled in a troublesome lawsuit.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,046th most common 34.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,732nd most common 30.4 per million appears in 17% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.8 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
12.3 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
缠
Strokes
21
Unicode
U+7E8F

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)