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Usage of the character 拐

guǎi
[柺]
  • variant of 枴/拐 (guǎi)
guǎi
[枴]
  • cane
  • walking stick
  • crutch
  • old man's staff
guǎi
[拐]
  • to turn (a corner etc)
  • to kidnap
  • to swindle
  • to misappropriate
  • seven (used as a substitute for 七 (qī))
  • variant of 枴/拐 (guǎi)
guǎigùn
拐棍
[拐棍]
  • cane
  • walking stick
yòuguǎi
诱拐
[誘拐]
  • to abduct; to kidnap
guǎiwān
拐弯
[拐彎]
  • to go round a curve
  • to turn a corner
  • fig. a new direction
xiǎoguǎi
小拐
[小拐]
  • to turn right (Shanghainese)
gūguǎi
孤拐
[孤拐]
  • cheekbone
  • ankle
guǎijiǎo
拐角
[拐角]
  • to turn a corner
  • corner
shùnguǎi
顺拐
[順拐]
  • to swing the arm and leg on the same side of the body together while walking
guǎizi
拐子
[拐子]
  • crutch
  • (derog.) lame person
  • kidnapper
shuāngguǎi
双拐
[雙拐]
  • crutches
guǎidiǎn
拐点
[拐點]
  • turning point
  • breaking point
  • inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign)
jiàguǎi
架拐
[架拐]
  • to use a crutch
guǎimài
拐卖
[拐賣]
  • human trafficking
  • to abduct and sell
  • to kidnap and sell
guǎizhàng
拐杖
[拐杖]
  • crutches
  • crutch
  • walking stick
yángguǎi
羊拐
[羊拐]
  • children's game, similar to knucklebones
guǎipiàn
拐骗
[拐騙]
  • swindle
  • abduct
dàguǎi
大拐
[大拐]
  • to turn left (Shanghainese)
jiǎogūguai
脚孤拐
[腳孤拐]
  • bunion
  • hallux valgus
Tiěguǎi Lǐ
铁拐李
[鐵拐李]
  • see 李鐵拐/李铁拐 ( Lǐ Tiěguǎi)
guǎijiǎochù
拐角处
[拐角處]
  • street corner
guǎiwānr
拐弯儿
[拐彎兒]
  • erhua variant of 拐彎/拐弯 (guǎiwān)
xiàngyòuguǎi
向右拐
[向右拐]
  • to turn right
guǎiwānchù
拐弯处
[拐彎處]
  • corner
  • bend
Shíguǎiqū
石拐区
[石拐區]
  • Shiguai district of Baotou city 包頭市/包头市 ( Bāotóushì), Inner Mongolia
yòuguǎizhě
诱拐者
[誘拐者]
  • abductor
Lǐ Tiěguǎi
李铁拐
[李鐵拐]
  • Iron-Crutch Li, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙 ( Bāxiān) in Chinese mythology, walking around with an iron crutch and carrying a gourd with special medicine
xiàngzuǒguǎi
向左拐
[向左拐]
  • to turn left
zuǒwānyòuguǎi
左弯右拐
[左彎右拐]
  • to follow a winding path
qīwānbāguǎi
七湾八拐
[七灣八拐]
  • variant of 七彎八拐/七弯八拐 (qīwānbāguǎi)
qūlǐguǎiwān
曲里拐弯
[曲裡拐彎]
  • winding and turning (idiom)
qīwānbāguǎi
七弯八拐
[七彎八拐]
  • twisting and turning
  • tricky and complicated
yīquéyīguǎi
一瘸一拐
[一瘸一拐]
  • to limp
  • to hobble
kēngmēngguǎipiàn
坑蒙拐骗
[坑蒙拐騙]
  • to swindle
  • to cheat
guǎiwānmòjiǎo
拐弯抹角
[拐彎抹角]
  • lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
  • fig. to speak in a roundabout way
  • to equivocate
  • to beat about the bush
gēbozhǒuwǎngwàiguǎi
胳膊肘往外拐
[胳膊肘往外拐]
  • see 胳膊肘朝外拐 (gēbozhǒucháowàiguǎi)
gēbozhǒucháowàiguǎi
胳膊肘朝外拐
[胳膊肘朝外拐]
  • lit. the elbow turns outward (idiom)
  • fig. to side with outsiders rather than one's own people