尪 (wāng) · lame; walking crookedly

Meanings

1 lame; walking crookedly
2 weak; frail

Characters

尪

wāng

lame; frail

Examples

HSK 7-9

古文用尪形容瘸腿虚弱的人。

Gǔwén yòng wāng xíngróng qué tuǐ xūruò de rén.

In classical texts this character describes someone lame and frail who walks unsteadily.

Tips

history

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.

register

Classical only; modern Chinese uses 瘸 for lame and 虚弱 for frail.

Components

radical

尢 yóu

lame; crooked leg

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.

phonetic

王 wáng

king (phonetic)

王 supplies the sound, drifted slightly from wáng to wāng. It is the common standalone character for king, reused here only for its reading.

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