Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- liáo
English
- wind round, rap around, bind
- to wind round
- to sew with slanting stitches
Variants
Words containing 繚
- 尉繚wai3 liu4
Wei Lao (c. 450 BC, dates of birth and death unknown), advisor to the first Qin emperor Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2], possible author of the Wei Liaozi 尉繚子|尉缭子[Wei4 Liao2 zi5] text on military strategy
- 繚繞liu4 jiu5
(of smoke from a chimney) to curl upward
- 繚繑liu2 kiu2
messy (handwriting)
- 眼花繚亂ngaan5 faa1 liu4 lyun6
to be dazzled
- 繚亂liu4 lyun6
dazzled
- 尉繚子wai3 liu4 zi2
Wei Liaozi, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], possibly written by Wei Liao 尉繚|尉缭[Wei4 Liao2] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- 繚邊兒liu4 bin1 ji4
to stitch a hem