拐弯 (拐彎)
guǎi wān
Pinyin

Definition

拐弯 (拐彎)
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guǎi wān
  1. to go round a curve
  2. to turn a corner
  3. fig. a new direction

Character Decomposition

Related Words (16)

guǎi
  1. 1 to turn (a corner etc)
  2. 2 to kidnap
  3. 3 to swindle
  4. 4 to misappropriate
  5. 5 walking stick
  6. 6 crutch
  7. 7 seven (used as a substitute for 七[qī])
guǎi piàn
  1. 1 swindle
  2. 2 abduct
guǎi wān
  1. 1 to go round a curve
  2. 2 to turn a corner
  3. 3 fig. a new direction
guǎi zhàng
  1. 1 crutches
  2. 2 crutch
  3. 3 walking stick
guǎi jiǎo
  1. 1 to turn a corner
  2. 2 corner

Idioms (3)

拐弯抹角
guǎi wān mò jiǎo
  1. 1 lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to speak in a roundabout way
  3. 3 to equivocate
  4. 4 to beat about the bush
曲里拐弯
qū lǐ guǎi wān
  1. 1 winding and turning (idiom)
胳膊肘朝外拐
gē bo zhǒu cháo wài guǎi
  1. 1 the elbow turns the wrong way
  2. 2 to favor an outsider instead of someone on one's own side (idiom)