Keyword
to turn
- to kidnap
- to abduct
- crutch
- Frequency
- #2602
- Strokes
- 8
Readings
guǎi
Mnemonic
To take another 另 by force 扌
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
拐
to turn (a corner etc); to kidnap; to swindle; to misappropriate; seven (used as a substitute for 七 (qī)); cane; walking stick; crutch; old man's staff
拐杖
crutches; crutch; walking stick
诱拐
to abduct; to kidnap
拐卖
human trafficking; to abduct and sell; to kidnap and sell
拐弯
to go round a curve; to turn a corner; fig. a new direction
拐骗
swindle; abduct
拐角
to turn a corner; corner
拐点
turning point; breaking point; inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign)
拐弯抹角
lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom); fig. to speak in a roundabout way; to equivocate; to beat about the bush
拐角处
street corner
拐子
crutch; (derog.) lame person; kidnapper
坑蒙拐骗
(idiom) to swindle, scam and deceive
拐棍
cane; walking stick
一瘸一拐
to limp; to hobble
拐弯处
corner; bend
双拐
crutches
李铁拐
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