音読み: ソウ
訓読み: くる
画数: 19
部首: 糸（いとへん）
Meaning
Spin / Reel / Turn Over / Repeat.
- 繰り返す — to repeat
- 繰延 — deferment; postponement
- 手繰る — to pull in; to reel
- 繰糸 — reeling silk thread
繰 combines the 糸 “thread” radical with a phonetic that suggests the sound ソウ. Originally tied to silk threads, the sense is of reeling and winding. By extension, it came to mean turning over, repeating, or spinning through events or pages.
Imagine reeling silk (絹) thread over and over — the action of winding, spinning, or turning again. That motion is captured in 繰.
Forms
繰延 — deferment; postponement