枉 (wǎng)
to twist; in vain; unjust
How 枉 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 枉
- Simplified
- 枉 (unchanged)
Common words using 枉
- 冤枉 yuānwang
- to accuse wrongly; to treat unjustly; injustice
- 冤枉路 yuānwanglù
- pointless trip; not worth the trip
- 枉法 wǎngfǎ
- to circumvent the law
- 枉然 wǎngrán
- in vain; to no avail
- 枉費 wǎngfèi
- to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc); to try in vain
- 冤枉錢 yuānwangqián
- pointless expense; not worth the money spent
- 矯枉過正 jiǎowǎngguòzhèng
- to over-correct a defect (idiom); to over-compensate; to push sth too far the other way; fig. inverse discrimination
枉 in a sentence
你別冤枉好人，這件事不是他做的。
Nǐ bié yuānwǎng hǎorén, zhè jiàn shì búshì tā zuò de.
“Don't wrongly accuse a good person; he didn't do this.”
How common is 枉?
枉 is the 2,912th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.1% of all running text.
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