拗

拗 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手女戈尸 (QVIS), four-corner 5402₇, composition ⿰扌幼)

1. to pull, drag, break off, to pluck (a flower)
2. bent, warped
3. perverse, obstinate

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 426, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11962
• Dae Jaweon: page 774, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1862, character 6
• Unihan data for U+62D7

拗

1. to defy; to disobey
2. hard to read

拗

1. (dialectal) to bend; twist as to break

   搿根棒頭儂拗得斷𠲎？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
   搿根棒头侬拗得断𠲎？ [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ⁸geq-ken ⁶baon-deu ⁶non ⁵au-teq ⁶doe-vaq [Wugniu]

   Can you bend this branch?

2. (Hakka) to pluck; to pick (flowers, fruits, leaves, etc.)
3. (Hokkien) to fold

• (to pluck): 摘 (zhāi); (Hokkien) 挽
• (to fold): 摺／折 (zhé)

拗

1. stubborn; obstinate

拗

1. ^† to suppress; to repress

拗

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 詏／𬣦 (“to argue; to dispute”)

Unclear. Zhang (1993) suggests that it might ultimately be derived from a contraction of 勿 + 要. Compare also 勿要, 𧟰.

• (Chongming Shadi) Wugniu: ¹au, IPA^(key): /ɔ⁵⁵/
• (Haimen Shadi) Wugniu: ¹au, IPA^(key): /ɔ⁵⁴/

拗 (Shadi Wu)

1. do not
2. do not want
3. do not need to
4. To indicate an undesirably or unexpectedly large degree or amount.
5. To indicate that an action or circumstance is undesirable to the speaker.

• 拗要
• 勿要
• 𧟰 (fiào)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01549
• “拗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: よう (yō)
• Kan-on: おう (ō)
• On: いく (iku)
• Kun: ねじる (nejiru, 拗る); ねじれる (nejireru, 拗れる); ねじける (nejikeru, 拗ける); こじれる (kojireru, 拗れる); すねる (suneru, 拗ねる)

拗 • (yo) (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune–Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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拗: Hán Nôm readings: húc, ao, áo, ảo, nữu

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