In classical texts this character describes someone lame and frail who walks unsteadily.
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尪 is not used as a standalone word in modern Chinese; it appears in classical texts meaning lame or feeble (also written 尩). It is built on the bent-leg radical 尢, which pictures a person with a crooked leg and also marks 尬 and 尴.
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Classical only; modern Chinese uses 瘸 for lame and 虚弱 for frail.
尢 is the lame-leg radical, a person standing with one leg bent. It supplies the whole meaning of 尪 — crippled, walking awry — and indexes it among the lame-leg characters.
