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- to turn (a corner etc)
- to kidnap
- to swindle
- to misappropriate
- seven (used as a substitute for 七[qi1])
- variant of 枴|拐[guai3]
Trad. 拐點
- turning point
- breaking point
- inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign)
Trad. 順拐
- to swing the arm and leg on the same side of the body together while walking
Trad. 石拐區
- Shiguai, a district of Baotou City 包頭市|包头市[Bao1 tou2 Shi4], Inner Mongolia
Trad. 李鐵拐
- Iron-Crutch Li, one of the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1] in Chinese mythology, walking around with an iron crutch and carrying a gourd with special medicine
Trad. 拐彎抹角
- lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
- fig. to speak in a roundabout way
- to equivocate
- to beat about the bush
Trad. 七彎八拐
- (idiom) twisting and turning
- (idiom) tricky and complicated
Trad. 坑蒙拐騙
- (idiom) to swindle, scam and deceive
Trad. 七灣八拐
- variant of 七彎八拐|七弯八拐[qi1 wan1 ba1 guai3]
- see 胳膊肘朝外拐[ge1 bo5 zhou3 chao2 wai4 guai3]
- lit. the elbow turns outward (idiom)
- fig. to side with outsiders rather than one's own people