冤 (jyun1 | yuan1) : accuse falsely; grievance

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冤

jyun1

yuan1

[1] accuse falsely; treat unjustly; to wrong
[2] grievance; injustice; a wrong
[3] feeling of bitterness; hatred; enmity
[4] worthless; waste of money
[5] [v] cheat; kid; fool; pull sb's legs

[variant] 寃

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 10

Level: 3

Radical: 冖 (#14)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

冤

This word has been viewed 7121 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 18th Dec 2012 05:36

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冤枉 jyun1 wong2 yuan1 wang5 = to treat unjustly

冤獄 jyun1 juk6 yuan1 yu4 = a miscarriage of justice; an unjust charge

鬥氣冤家 dau3 hei3 jyun1 gaa1 dou4 qi4 yuan1 jia5 = sparring partner

不白之冤 bat1 baak6 zi1 jyun1 bu4 bai2 zhi1 yuan1 = unrighted wrong; unredressed injustice 國

含冤 ham4 jyun1 han2 yuan1 = to suffer an injustice

含冤受屈 ham4 jyun1 sau6 wat1 han2 yuan1 shou4 qu1 = to suffer an injustice

含冤莫白 ham4 jyun1 mok6 baak6 han2 yuan1 mo4 bai2 = to suffer an injustice

呼冤 fu1 jyun1 hu1 yuan1 = speaking out against injustice

仇冤 sau4 jyun1 chou2 yuan1 = hatred

冤戾 jyun1 lai2 = to be treated unfairly; to frame 粵
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Showing 1 example containing 冤

佢走咗好多冤枉路, 先至搵到呢份工。粵
He has taken many a roundabout way before finding this job.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 冤
Unicode code for this character: U+51a4 (off-site link)

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