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。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, 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。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, 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. [Pinyin]

     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

• “枉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “枉”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 704.

(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.

• Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[2] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

枉: Hán Nôm readings: uổng

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