曲里拐弯 — Chinese idiom
曲里拐弯
qū lǐ guǎi wān
Traditional: 曲裡拐彎
Meaning
- winding and turning
Character by character
- 曲qūcrooked, bent; wrong, false
- 里lǐunit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
- 拐guǎito kidnap, to abduct; to turn; crutch
- 弯wānbend, curve, turn
Idioms sharing a character
- 是非曲直 shì fēi qū zhí
- 曲突徙薪 qū tū xǐ xīn
- 曲终奏雅 qǔ zhōng zòu yǎ
- 曲肱而枕 qū gōng ér zhěn
- 曲高和寡 qǔ gāo hè guǎ
- 异曲同工 yì qǔ tóng gōng
- 盘旋曲折 pán xuán qū zhé
- 迂回曲折 yū huí qū zhé
- 一日千里 yī rì qiān lǐ
- 千里迢迢 qiān lǐ tiáo tiáo
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