to confine / to lock up / to pen in
pen (pig) / a fold
circle / ring / loop / classifier for loops, orbits, laps of race etc / CL:個|个[ge4] / to surround / to circle

= + : Cupid (qu) opened a show business (圈) in front of the anthill (an1). It consists of a mysterious wooden box (囗) around which Cupid will lead every interested passer-by in circles (圈), and then into the box. Inside the box Cupid has a lot of hair rollers (卷) with which he will transform the hair of any victim.
circle; ring; loop (CL:個|个[ge4]) / classifier for loops, orbits, laps of race etc / to surround; to circle

圈 character breakdown

to roll up / roll / classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)

= + : Zeus (ju) is applying hair rollers (卷) to the navy seal's (㔾) hair in the anthill (an3) using a modern machine. Suddenly he looses control of the machine which goes mad, and it threatens to devour all of the seal's hair. As the navy seal is already half-bald, he manages to push the off-button (关) of the machine.
scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll

= + : Zeus (ju) is about to take his final hair dresser exam. In the anthill's bathroom (an4) he reads up on how to use a hair roller (卷) machine in a thick hair dresser's volume (卷), especially on how to use the off button (关). He had a dream last night about a navy seal (㔾), but he can't quite remember what it was about.
enclosure

Mnemonic symbol: a plastic enclosure. Willy Walrus (w) is keeping frozen fish in an enclosure (囗) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).
to roll (up) / to sweep up / to carry on / roll

= + : Zeus (ju) is applying hair rollers (卷) to the navy seal's (㔾) hair in the anthill (an3) using a modern machine. Suddenly he looses control of the machine which goes mad, and it threatens to devour all of the seal's hair. As the navy seal is already half-bald, he manages to push the off-button (关) of the machine.
to roll up / to sweep up; to carry along / a roll / classifier for rolls, spools etc

Characters with 圈 as component

圈 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 圈

to rotate / to twirl / to run around / to encircle / rotation / (coll.) to speak indirectly / to beat about the bush
pigsty (lit. and fig.)
wheel rim / underwire (in a bra)
asthenosphere (geology)
to remove manure from a cowshed or pigsty etc (for use as fertilizer) / to muck out
jumping through hoops (as acrobatic show)
(slang, jocular, neologism c. 2006, used esp. in relation to public figures) the things you and your friends get up to (misbehavior, scandals etc) leave me shaking my head
collar (animal)
ring around the moon / lunar halo / solar halo
rushing to stake one's claim in new markets (idiom)

Sentences with 圈

圈 currently does not appear in any sentence.