繞
surround, return
Readings
On'yomi
- ジョウ
- ニョウ
Kun'yomi
- めぐ.る
- まわ.る
- もとう.る
- まとう
Meaning
繞 centers on encircling or going around something: surrounding, winding around, or returning by a circular path.
Most common words using 繞
- 之繞しんにょう
kanji "road" or "advance" radical (radical 162)
- 之繞を掛けるしんにゅうをかける
to exaggerate
- 人繞にんにょう
kanji "legs radical" (radical 10)
- 凵繞かんにょう
kanji "box" radical (radical 17)
- 囲繞いじょう
surrounding; enclosure
- 夊繞すいにょう
kanji "suinyō" radical (radical 35)
- 廴繞いんにょう
kanji "stretch" radical (radical 54)
- 延繞えんにょう
kanji "stretch" radical (radical 54)
- 支繞しにょう
kanji "branch" radical as enclosure
- 攴繞ぼくにょう
kanji "strike" radical at right (radical 66)
- 文繞ぶんにょう
kanji "literature" radical (radical 67)
- 爪繞そうにょう
kanji "claw" radical at left
- 繞にょう
kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji; kanji enclosure-type radical
- 繞くしまく
to enclose; to surround
- 纏繞てんじょう
twining around; entangling
- 走繞そうにょう
kanji "run" radical at left
- 鬼繞きにょう
kanji "demon" radical
- 麥繞ばくにょう
kanji "wheat" radical
Study
Etymology
繞 combines 糸 (thread) with 堯, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of winding or encircling, as thread can be wrapped around something.
Meaning mnemonic
Thread 糸 winding around the tall, layered shape of 堯: picture a spool of thread encircling a high mound, surrounding it completely.
Reading mnemonic
For ジョウ, imagine a thread wrapping around a giant Joe (ジョウ) who is standing on a mound: Joe -> ジョウ, and the thread surrounds him.