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拐弯

guǎi wān

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 拐彎

拐弯 (guǎi wān) means "to turn, go round a bend". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 拐弯 means

1. to go round a curve
2. to turn a corner
3. fig. a new direction

The characters in 拐弯

• 拐guǎito turn (a corner etc); to kidnap; to swindle
• 弯wānto bend; bent; a bend; a turn (in a road etc)

Example sentences

• 不要拐弯抹角。
  Bù yào guǎiwānmòjiǎo.
  Don't beat around the bush.
• 绿灯时，拐弯车要让人。
  Lǜdēng shí, guǎiwān chē yào ràng rén.
  When the light is green, cars turning must yield to pedestrians.
• 你到这儿拐弯角上去坐地铁。
  Nǐ dào zhèr guǎiwān jiǎo shàngqù zuò dìtiě.
  Turn here to get on the subway.
• 往北拐弯走到第二条弄堂就是。
  Turn north, walk to the second alley, and you're there.
• 汤姆拐弯儿拐得太快了，把车开到了水沟里。
  Tom was driving too fast on the bend and ended up in the ditch.

Words starting with 拐弯

• 拐弯处guǎi wān chùcorner; bend
• 拐弯抹角guǎi wān mò jiǎolit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)…
• 拐弯儿guǎi wān rerhua variant of 拐弯

Words containing 拐弯

• 曲里拐弯qū lǐ guǎi wānwinding and turning (idiom)

Where 拐弯 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Miscellaneous Objects, Places & Terms A (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read guǎi wān correctly.
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