The Chinese word for to bend is
弯
wān
Chinese Definition
| bend | |
| 1. 弯曲 |
Translations for bend and their definitions
| 屈 | |
| 1. to bend; to flex | |
| 2. bent; crooked | |
| 3. to condescend | |
| 4. to submit; to yield | |
| 5. to subdue; to cause to submit | |
| 6. to treat unjustly; to wrong | |
| 7. to be in the wrong | |
| 8. (Cantonese) to frame; to accuse | |
| 你 唔好 屈 得 就 屈 喎wo3！ - Don't frame me as long as there's an opportunity to do so! | |
| 9. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 屈機, tr=- | |
| ^屈 ^原 - Qu Yuan (Chinese politician and poet of the state of Chu during the last years of the Warring States period) | |
| 10. Only used in 屈狄 (a kind of noblewomen's clothing in ancient China) |
| 彎 | |
| 1. to bend; to make bent | |
| 彎腰 - to bend over | |
| 2. bent; curved; crooked; arched | |
| 彎曲 - bent | |
| 彎路 - curved road | |
| Antonyms: 直 | |
| 3. (neologism, slang) gay; homosexual | |
| 彎男 - gay man | |
| 變 彎 - to turn a straight person gay | |
| Antonyms: 直 | |
| 4. a bend; turn; curve; crook | |
| 彎子 - a bend | |
| 拐彎 - to turn (at a corner) | |
| 5. (灣) | |
| 6. a bend in a river | |
| 7. a bend in the coastline; bay, gulf | |
| 8. (Penang Hokkien) to turn; to make a turn; to change direction |
| 弯 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 彎 |
| 轉彎 | |
| 1. v. to make a turn; to turn (a corner); to get around (a bend) | |
| 2. v. (figurative, of a person) to be flexible in one's thinking; to adapt one's thinking according to the situation | |
| 3. v. (figurative) to beat around the bush; to speak or think indirectly | |
| 4. n. turn; corner; bend | |
| 5. v. (intransitive) to rotate; to circle round |
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