to wind around / to wrap round / to coil / tangle / to involve / to bother / to annoy

= + 广 + : Just as Charlie Chaplin (ch) entered the anthill (an2) he gets entangled (缠) into a mass of parachuting (广) silk worms (纟) which throw sunflowers (里) at him. Charlie Chaplin thinks that the silk worms are quite annoying (缠).

缠 character breakdown

"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
surname Guang

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
wide / numerous / to spread

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红[hong2], 綠|绿[lü4], 累[lei4] etc / also pr. [mi4]

A silk worm.
variant of 裡|里[li3]
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

Characters with 缠 as component

缠 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 缠

(of an illness, debt etc) to plague sb / to preoccupy sb / difficult to get rid of
(of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one
touching (emotions) / lingering (illness)
twisting / to twine / to wind / to pester / to bother
to pester endlessly (idiom) / an annoying troublemaker
lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money / extremely wealthy / loaded
to pester / to involve sb unreasonably
to pester / to bother endlessly
quantum entanglement (physics)
(usu. of people) difficult / demanding / troublesome / unreasonable / hard to deal with
(of a person) sad beyond words (idiom) / (of music, literature etc) poignant / very sentimental
embroidered headband used as decoration by actors or in Hui ethnic group / to reward an actor with brocade headband

Sentences with 缠

缠 currently does not appear in any sentence.