| rào | to wind/to coil (thread)/to rotate around/to spiral/to move around/to go round (an obstacle)/to by-pass/to make a detour/to confuse/to perplex |
| 绕 | to wind to coil (thread) to rotate around |
| 绕口令 | tongue-twister |
| 绕嘴 | hard to get one's mouth around a tongue-twister |
| 绕圈 | wind |
| 绕圈子 | to go on a long detour fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point to beat about the bush |
| 绕地 | to orbit the earth |
| 绕场 | March around a field. |
| 绕场一周 | to go round the stadium |
| 绕射 | interference (of wave motion in physics) |
| 绕射线 | a diffracted ray |
| 绕射角 | a diffraction angle |
| 绕弯 | to go for a walk around fig. to speak in a roundabout way |
| 绕弯儿 | to go for a walk around fig. to speak in a roundabout way |
| 绕弯子 | lit. to go on a long detour fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point to beat about the bush |
| 绕弯子儿 | lit. to go on a long detour fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point to beat about the bush |
| 绕手 | thorny issue tricky case |
| 绕来绕去 | meandering and circuitous (idiom); to go around in circles and never get anywhere |
| 绕梁 | linger; reverberate |
| 绕梁三日 | reverberates around the rafters for three days (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice) |
| 绕梁之音 | sounds that seem to be winding around the beams; so beautiful that it remains lingering long in the air |