绕
rào HSK5

entwine

绕 繞 rào frequency
variant 遶
to revolve around verb
to rotate or move in a circle around a center point

月亮绕着地球转。

yuè​liang rào zhe dì​qiú zhuàn.

The Moon revolves around the Earth.

to detour verb
to make a detour; to go around an obstacle; to bypass a route

我绕到后面去。

wǒ rào dào hòu​miàn qù.

I'll go around the back.

to wind verb
to wind; to coil; to entwine thread or string around something
to confuse
to become entangled or confused by a complex problem or speech
绕 繞 rào
surname
a Chinese surname
to be a tongue-twister
to be awkward to pronounce or difficult to articulate clearly (of speech)
to trap
to set a trap or trick someone into a snare

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,485th most common 73.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,586th most common 37.5 per million appears in 19% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
27.9 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
28.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
繞
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+7ED5

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