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彎
简 弯 · 繁 彎Mandarin · pinyin wān
Meanings
- to bend
- bent
- a bend; a turn (in a road etc)
- Classifier: 道 dào
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- to bend; to make bent
- (Penang Hokkien) to turn; to make a turn; to change direction
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to draw a bow
- bent; curved; crooked; arched
- (neologism, slang) gay; homosexual
- bend; turn; curve; crook
- (Chinese calligraphy) a bend (such as in ㇉, ㇌, ㇟, or ㇠)
- (灣／湾 (wān)) — a bend in a river
- (灣／湾 (wān)) — a bend in the coastline; bay, gulf
- Classifier for bent objects, such as a quarter moon.
- (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) to act shamelessly and unreasonably; to be a rascal
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to be wronged
- (Suzhounese) that; those
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