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Pinyin	Yale	Jyutping	English Definition for Chinese Text
wan1	waan1	waan1	to bend / bent / a bend / a turn (in the road etc)

Traditional Chinese	Pinyin	Yale	Jyutping	English Definition for Chinese Text
彎腰 Learn more	wan1 yao1	waan1 yiu1	waan1 jiu1	to stoop
拐彎 Learn more	guai3 wan1	gwaai2 waan1	gwaai2 waan1	to go round a curve / to turn a corner / fig. a new direction
彎曲 Learn more	wan1 qu1	waan1 kuk1	waan1 kuk1	to bend / to curve around / curved / crooked / to wind / to warp
轉彎 Learn more	zhuan3 wan1	jyun2, jyun3 waan1	zyun2, zyun3 waan1	to turn / to go around a corner

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Traditional	Pinyin	Used for
道	dao4	long thin things (rivers, cracks); barriers (walls, doors); questions; commands; courses in a meal; steps in a process

The car negotiated the sharp curve by slowing down.

The body was twisted, its legs at an awkward angle.

He had a long , thin body and the scholar's stoop.

I was approaching a fairly sharp bend that swept downhill to the left.

The trail zigzagged down the abrupt descent of the canyon.

After night fell we drove slowly along , picking our way until we found the right turn.

Especially at corners and on slopes he was almost excessively careful.

An old, close - bitten pasture, with a footpath wandering across it and a molehill here and there.

When you write, avoid sandwiching the bad news between an irrelevant, indirect, or overly cushioned beginning and end.

One woman and four men - all bent , and wrinkled, and mind - extinguished patriarches.

Phonetics:	ni3	nǐ
Tone colors (āáǎàa):	off	on