拐杖
guǎi zhàng
Pinyin

Definition

拐杖
 - 
guǎi zhàng
  1. crutches
  2. crutch
  3. walking stick

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

拐
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])
拐骗
guǎi piàn
  1. 1 swindle
  2. 2 abduct
杖
zhàng
  1. 1 a staff
  2. 2 a rod
  3. 3 cane
  4. 4 walking stick
  5. 5 to flog with a stick (old)
手杖
shǒu zhàng
  1. 1 cane
  2. 2 classifier: 把 bǎ
拐弯
guǎi wān
  1. 1 to go round a curve
  2. 2 to turn a corner
  3. 3 fig. a new direction

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)

Sample Sentences

Guess: if someone wears a big round top hat, with a very tight top and extremely baggy pants, with pointy leather shoes, and they have a little moustache, carry a thin walking stick and waddle like a penguin, who are they imitating?
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