彎 (wān)
to turn / curved / to bend
How 彎 is written
- Strokes
- 22
- Radical
- 糹 — silk
- Traditional
- 彎
- Simplified
- 弯
Components
- 糹 silk
- 糸 silk
- 言 speech
- 弓 bow
Common words using 彎
- 彎曲 wānqū
- to bend; to curve around; curved
- 轉彎 zhuǎnwān
- to turn; to go around a corner
- 彎腰 wānyāo
- to stoop
- 拐彎 guǎiwān
- to go round a curve; to turn a corner; fig. a new direction
- 臂彎 bìwān
- crook of the arm
- 走彎路 zǒuwānlù
- to take an indirect route; to waste one's time by using an inappropriate method
- 彎子 wānzi
- bend; turn; curve
- 彎彎曲曲 wānwānqūqū
- curved; meandering; zigzagging
- 彎折 wānzhé
- to bend
- 拐彎兒 guǎiwānr
- erhua variant of 拐彎|拐弯, to go round a curve; to turn a corner; fig. a new direction
- 拐彎處 guǎiwānchù
- corner; bend
- 曲裡拐彎 qūlǐguǎiwān
- winding and turning (idiom)
彎 in a sentence
去山上的路很彎，你會暈車嗎？
Qù shānshàng de lù hěn wān, nǐ huì yùnchē ma?
“The road up the mountain is very winding; do you get carsick?”
How common is 彎?
彎 is the 1,660th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.6% of all running text.
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