冤 (yuān)
injustice/grievance/to be wronged
How 冤 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 冖 — cover
- Traditional
- 冤
- Simplified
- 冤 (unchanged)
Components
- 冖 cover
- ⺈ knife
- 口 mouth
- 丨 line
- 乚 second
- 丶 dot
Common words using 冤
- 冤家 yuānjiā
- enemy; foe; in opera, sweetheart or destined love
- 冤枉 yuānwang
- to accuse wrongly; to treat unjustly; injustice
- 伸冤 shēnyuān
- to right wrongs; to redress an injustice
- 冤家路窄 yuānjiālùzhǎi
- lit. enemies on a narrow road (idiom); fig. an inevitable clash between opposing factions
- 冤案 yuānàn
- miscarriage of justice
- 洗冤 xǐyuān
- lit. to wash out a grievance; fig. to right a wrong; to redress an injustice
- 冤仇 yuānchóu
- rancor; enmity; hatred resulting from grievances
- 冤假錯案 yuānjiǎcuòàn
- unjust, fake and false charges (in a legal case)
- 冤大頭 yuāndàtóu
- spendthrift and foolish; sb with more money than sense
- 冤孽 yuānniè
- sin (in Buddhism); enmity leading to sin
- 冤屈 yuānqū
- to receive unjust treatment; injustice
- 冤情 yuānqíng
- facts of an injustice; circumstances surrounding a miscarriage of justice
冤 in a sentence
他被誤會偷東西，覺得很冤。
Tā bèi wùhuì tōu dōngxi, juéde hěn yuān.
“He was misunderstood as having stolen something and felt very wronged.”
How common is 冤?
冤 is the 2,391st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.3% of all running text.
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