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Hanzi Character Search: 冤

51A4

 
grievance, injustice, wrong
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 8 Total Strokes 10
Mandarin reading yuān Cantonese reading jyun1
Japanese on reading en Japanese kun reading kagamu nureginu
Korean reading wen Vietnamese reading oan
Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ yuān jiǎ cuò àn ]    unjust, fake and false charges (in a legal case)
   [ yuān yuān xiāng baò shí ]    if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying)
   [ yuān toú ]    spendthrift and foolish, sb with more money than sense
   [ yuān jiā jiě jié ]    It is better to squash enmity rather than keeping it alive (proverb)
   [ yuān jiā duì toú ]    enemy (idiom); opponent, arch-enemy
   [ yuān yoǔ toú zhaì yoǔ zhǔ ]    for every grievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is a debtor (idiom), when settling disputes one should not involve third parties
   [ yuān wang qián ]    wasted money, pointless expense
   [ yuān ]    sin (in Buddhism), enmity leading to sin, also written 冤孽
   [ yuān ]    resentment over unfair treatment
   [ yuān ]    unjust charge or verdict, miscarriage of justice, frame-up
   [ yuān ]    unjust charge, frame-up
   [ yuān qián ]    money spent in vain, wasted money
   [ yuān toú ]    enemy, foe
   [ yuān ]    old variant of 冤[yuan1]
⇒    [ shì yuān jiā toú ]    destiny will make enemies meet (idiom), (often said about lovers who have a disagreement)
⇒    [ yuān yuān xiāng baò shí ]    if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying)
⇒    [ yoǔ choú baò feī jūn yoǔ yuān shēn wǎng weí rén ]    one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is not a man (idiom)
⇒    [ huān yuān jia ]    quarrelsome but loving couple
⇒    [ yuān ]    Record of Washed Grievances (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈, said to be the world's first legal forensic text
⇒    [ fán yuān ]    frustrated, agitated, distressed
⇒    [ doù é yuān ]    The Injustice to Dou E (popular drama by 關漢卿|关汉卿[Guan1 Han4 qing1])
⇒    [ yuān ]    to complain, to vent one's grievances
⇒    [ míng yuān ]    to complain bitterly

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