拐弯

拐弯 guǎiwān in a sentence

Turn a corner

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 2 sentences

拐弯 (guǎiwān) means Turn a corner. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他说话喜欢 拐弯 。

Tā shuō huà xǐhuan guǎi wān.

He likes to speak in a roundabout way.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 拐弯

前面路口向左 拐弯 。

Qiánmiàn lùkǒu xiàng zuǒ guǎi wān.

Turn left at the intersection ahead.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 拐弯

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How is 拐弯 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 拐弯 (guǎiwān, "Turn a corner"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 拐弯 an HSK word?

Yes — 拐弯 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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