串
chuàn
to string together
to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across
mouth (口) + mouth (口) + vertical stroke (丨) = things skewered in a line
Two openings pierced by a single vertical line evokes items threaded onto a skewer, one above the other. The image captures both the physical act of stringing things together and the resulting bunch or series.
她把珠子串成一条漂亮的项链。
tā bǎ zhū zi chuàn chéng yī tiáo piào liang de xiàng liàn。
She strung the beads into a pretty necklace.
他买了一串葡萄回家。
tā mǎi le yī chuàn pú tao huí jiā。
He bought a bunch of grapes and went home.
Words with 串
反串
fǎn chuàn
(modern) to play a transvestite role
连串
lián chuàn
one after the other
客串
kè chuàn
to appear on stage in an amateur capacity
一连串
yī lián chuàn
a succession of
串行
chuàn háng
to miss a line
串行
chuàn xíng
series
通用串行总线
tōng yòng chuàn xíng zǒng xiàn
(computing) Universal Serial Bus; USB
钱串
qián chuàn
string of cash
钱串儿
qián chuàn r
erhua variant of 錢串|钱串[qian2 chuan4]
钱串子
qián chuàn zi
string of copper coins (in ancient China)
串口
chuàn kǒu
serial port (computing)
串供
chuàn gòng
to collude to fabricate a story