拗

拗 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手女戈尸 (QVIS), four-corner 5402₇, composition ⿰扌幼)

1. to pull, drag, break off, to pluck (a flower)
2. bent, warped
3. perverse, obstinate

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 426, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11962
• Dae Jaweon: page 774, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1862, character 6
• Unihan data for U+62D7

拗

1. to defy; to disobey
2. hard to read

拗

1. (dialectal) to bend; twist as to break

   搿根棒頭儂拗得斷𠲎？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
   搿根棒头侬拗得断𠲎？ [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ⁸geq-ken₁ ⁶baon-deu₆ ⁶non ⁵au-teq₇-doe₆-va₀ [Wugniu]

   Can you snap this branch?

2. (Hakka) to pluck; to pick (flowers, fruits, leaves, etc.)
3. (Hokkien) to fold; to droop; to hem; to pleat
4. (Hokkien) to coerce; to force; to compel; to oppress; to treat unjustly; to make false claims or deliberately misinterpret
5. (Hokkien) to shortchange; to skimp; to scrimp; to give insufficiently
6. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Classifier for folds of thin sheets.

• (to pluck): 摘 (zhāi); (Hokkien) 挽
• (to fold): 摺／折 (zhé)

拗

1. stubborn; obstinate

拗

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to suppress; to repress

拗

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 詏 / 𬣦 (“to argue; to dispute”)

Unclear. Zhang (1993) and Zhang (2009) suggest that it might ultimately be derived from a contraction of either 勿 + 要 or 無／无 + 要. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

(Haimen Shadi, Wugniu): 1au, IPA^(key): /ɔ⁵⁴/

拗 (Shadi Wu)

1. do not want; do not like to (expressing nonvolition)

   葛一物事我拗吃。 [Shadi Wu, trad. and simp.]

   I do not want to eat that./I don't like that food./I won't eat this stuff.

   • 2009, 張惠英 [Zhang Huiying], 崇明方言研究 [A Study of Chongming Dialect], page 193:

     衣裳舊子夷拗要着個。 [Shadi Wu, trad.]
     衣裳旧子夷拗要着个。 [Shadi Wu, simp.]

     He won't wear those clothes now that they're so old.

2. do not need to; do not have to
   • 2008, 王洪鐘 [Wang Hongzhong], 海門方言語法專題研究 [Studies on Selected Topics of Haimenese Grammar], page 72:

     你奧急得個，我點心之前肯定幫你辦到。 [Shadi Wu, trad.]
     你奥急得个，我点心之前肯定帮你办到。 [Shadi Wu, simp.]

     No need to worry; I can most definitely take care of it for you before lunch.

   • 2008, 王洪鐘 [Wang Hongzhong], 海門方言語法專題研究 [Studies on Selected Topics of Haimenese Grammar], page 72:

     還有梗多飯勒，下頓有處奧燒特。 [Shadi Wu, trad.]
     还有梗多饭勒，下顿有处奥烧特。 [Shadi Wu, simp.]

     There's still so much rice, it's ok even if we do not cook any for the next meal.

3. do not; don't (as an imperative)
   • 2008, 王洪鐘 [Wang Hongzhong], 海門方言語法專題研究 [Studies on Selected Topics of Haimenese Grammar], page 71:

     今朝你奧回轉特，住特我俚降。 [Shadi Wu, trad.]
     今朝你奥回转特，住特我俚降。 [Shadi Wu, simp.]

     Don't bother going back home today, live here with us.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01549
• “拗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: よう (yō)
• Kan-on: おう (ō)
• On: いく (iku)
• Kun: ねじる (nejiru, 拗る)、ねじれる (nejireru, 拗れる)、ねじける (nejikeru, 拗ける)、こじれる (kojireru, 拗れる)、すねる (suneru, 拗ねる)

拗 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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拗: Hán Nôm readings: húc, ao, áo, ảo, nữu

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