Meaning & readings
entwine, coil around, get caught in
Origin
The character combines the radical for thread or silk (the left part, which appears as a thin vertical line with small branches) with a sound hint on the right that tells you how to pronounce it. Since the core meaning is about things becoming tangled or wound together, the thread radical makes sense—threads are what naturally entwine and coil around each other. The right component gives you the approximate pronunciation but doesn't contribute to the meaning. Together, thread plus the sound indicator creates the idea of threads twisting and catching around something.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Common words
- 短絡 たんらく short circuit; short
- 脈絡 みゃくらく logical connection; chain of reasoning
- 絡む からむ to twine; to get tangled
- 連絡 れんらく contacting; (making) contact
- 絡み からみ linkage; entanglement
- ご連絡 ごれんらく contacting; getting in touch
- 連絡先 れんらくさき contact information (address, phone number, etc.)
- 絡み合う からみあう to intertwine; to become entangled
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 120
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #806 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+07D61