枉

枉 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木一土 (DMG), four-corner 4191₄, composition ⿰木王)

• 𠶖, 㳹, 𣒳

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 514, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14530
• Dae Jaweon: page 902, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1163, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6789

Related to 紆 (OC) ~ 迂 (OC *qʷa), 匡 (OC *kʰʷaŋ), 腕 (OC *qoːns), 冤 (OC *qon) (Schuessler, 2007). See 迂 (yū) for further etymology.

枉

1. bent; crooked

   • 若以情事上而求遷者，則如引諸絕繩而求乘枉木也，愈不冀矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     若以情事上而求迁者，则如引诸绝绳而求乘枉木也，愈不冀矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Lord Shang, circa 3^rd century BCE, translated based on J.J.L. Duyvendak's version

     Ruò yǐqíng shìshàng ér qiú qiān zhě, zé rú yǐn zhū juéshéng ér qiú chéng wǎngmù yě, yù bùjì yǐ.

     To strive for promotion by serving superiors with sincerity is like wishing to climb a crooked tree by holding on to a broken rope - it is even more hopeless

2. depraved; indecent; perverse
3. to distort; to twist; to bend
4. unjust; wrong
5. injustice
6. (literary) to condescend; to deign
7. in vain; to no avail; for naught
8. (Hong Kong Cantonese, triad slang) three

   Alternative form: 汪

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: おう (ō)
• Kan-on: おう (ō)
• Kun: まがる (magaru, 枉がる)、まげる (mageru, 枉げる)、まげて (magete, 枉げて)、むだに (mudani, 枉に)

枉 • (wang) (hangeul 왕, revised wang, McCune–Reischauer wang, Yale wang)

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枉 (transliteration needed)

1. Nôm form of vường.

• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

枉: Hán Nôm readings: uổng

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