wǎng

  1. wǎng adjective useless; in vain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 白費 (Guoyu '枉' adv; Unihan '枉')
  2. wǎng adjective bent; crooked
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 弯曲 (Guoyu '枉' adj 1; Unihan '枉')
  3. wǎng adjective not straight spoken; not honest; sinister
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 不正直的 (Guoyu '枉' adj 2)
  4. wǎng verb to twist; to distort
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 扭曲; for example, the idiom 贪赃枉法 (Guoyu '枉' v 1)
  5. wǎng verb to treat unjustly
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 冤陷; for example, the idiom 勿枉勿纵 'to not treat [the innocent] unjustly and not let [the guilty] off lightly' (Guoyu '枉' v 2)
  6. wǎng verb to neglect; to mistreat
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 枉顾 (Guoyu '枉' v 3)
  7. wǎng noun a sinister person or thing
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '枉' n 1)
  8. wǎng noun injustice
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: in the sense of 冤屈 (Guoyu '枉' n 2)

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