adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 unsteady; precarious
  2. 2 uncomfortable; uneasy

Examples

Tā zhàn zài wù wù bù'ān de dìfang.
He stood in an unsteady, precarious spot, anxious and uneasy.
Zhè shì yí ge hǎnjiàn de gǔ zì, yìsi shì dòngyáo bù'ān.
This is a rare classical character meaning shaky and ill-at-ease.

Tips

usage
is a rare literary character, usually paired in 杌卼 for something shaky and a state of restless unease. You will not meet it in everyday modern Chinese.

Components

phonetic
towering; bare (phonetic)
Left is , a flat-topped bare height, giving the sound wù exactly and a faint image of something standing precariously high — fitting the 'unsteady' sense.
semantic
jié
kneeling person; seal
Right is , a kneeling, folded human figure (also the seal sign). Beside an unstable height it adds the human element — a person ill at ease, unable to settle.

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