冤 (yuān): meaning and stroke order
冤 (yuān) means injustice, grievance, wrong, old variant of 冤.
冤
- Simplified
- 冤
- Traditional
- 冤, 寃
- Pinyin
- yuān
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Stroke order of 冤
冤
- yuān injustice; grievance
- yuān old variant of 冤[yuan1]
- 10 strokes
- Traditional form: 寃
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Meaning of 冤
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yuān
- injustice
- grievance
- wrong
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yuān
Traditional 寃
- old variant of 冤[yuan1]
Radical and structure
- 冤
- Radical 冖 (Kangxi radical 14) · 10 strokes · 冖 on top, 兔 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 冤
- 冤屈 yuān qū to treat unjustly; an injustice
- 冤情 yuān qíng facts of an injustice; circumstances surrounding a miscarriage of justice
- 冤死 yuān sǐ to suffer an unjust death
- 冤魂 yuān hún ghost of one who died unjustly; departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances
- 洗冤集录 Xǐ yuān Jí lù "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈[Song4 Ci2], said to be the world's first forensic science text
冤 in our stories
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那天夜里，张别古起来，刚把瓦盆放在地上，盆里竟然传出了一个男人的哭声：“老伯伯，我死得好冤啊！”
nà tiān yèli Zhāng Biégǔ qǐlai gāng bǎ wǎpén fàng zài dì shàng pén lǐ jìngrán chuánchū le yí gè nánrén de kūshēng lǎo bóbo wǒ sǐ de hǎo yuān a
That night Zhang Biegu got up, and as soon as he set the basin down, a man's weeping came from inside it: "Old uncle, I died so unjustly!"
From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 冤
- The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).