拐 guǎi — to turn; to bend; to curve; to corner; to swerve; to zigzag
拐
Level 1 · Common HSK 6 #967
Variant:
柺
guǎi guai3
Basic definition
verb
Detailed explanation
noun
- staff e.g 拐子头 · 拐儿 · 拐柱 · 拐子马
verb
- abduct e.g 拐孩子 · 拐占 · 拐米倒做了仓官 · 拐良为娼 · 拐儿 · 拐局
- turn e.g 拐弯儿 · 拐回来
- elbow
adjective
- wrong
- lame
Related words
- 拐点 turning point; breaking point; inflexion point (math.)
- 拐杖 crutches; crutch; walking stick
- 拐卖 human trafficking/to abduct and sell
- 拐弯 to go round a curve; to turn a corner; (fig.) a new direction
- 拐骗 swindle; abduct; to kidnap; to defraud; to abduct and sell; to entice away; to s
- 拐子 crutch
- 拐角 to turn a corner; corner; bend; turning; nook; street corner
- 拐棍儿 walking stick; cane
- 拐弯抹角 to beat about the bush; to evade the point
- 双拐 a pair of crutches
- 曲里拐弯 full of twists and turns; zigzagging
- 打拐 to crack down on trafficking in persons
- 拐带 to abduct; to kidnap; to spirit away
- 诱拐 abduct
- 坑蒙拐骗 to swindle and cheat people out of their money
- 拐棒 a crooked stick; a bent walking staff
- 拐棍 walking stick
- 拐腿 lame in the leg; to limp