HSK 6 · Emotions

冤枉 yuānwang “to wrong (someone)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 冤枉 means

  1. to wrong (someone)
  2. treated unjustly
  3. not worthwhile
  4. to accuse wrongly
  5. to treat unjustly
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • injustice
  • wronged

How to say 冤枉

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale冤yuān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own枉wangneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

冤枉 in a sentence

  1. 这件事不是我做的，你冤枉我了。

    Zhè jiàn shì bú shì wǒ zuò de, nǐ yuānwang wǒ le.

    I didn’t do it. You’ve wronged me.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我们走错了路，白走了很多冤枉路。

    Wǒmen zǒucuò le lù, bái zǒu le hěn duō yuānwang lù.

    We took the wrong road and went a long way for nothing.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 冤枉 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 冤 (yuān) with each of its parts in a different colour
冤yuāninjustice
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 兔rabbit · tù
The character 枉 (wǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
枉wǎngto twistlight in 冤枉
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 王king · wángSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 王 (wáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with wang.

How to write 冤枉

冤 10 strokes · 枉 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

冤枉 (yuānwang) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 冤枉 (yuānwang). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 冤枉

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FAQs

冤枉 (yuānwang) means “to wrong (someone)” or “treated unjustly”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yuānwang: yuān with a 1st tone, then wang with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 冤枉 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yuanwang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 冤枉 from the suggestions. Typing yuanwang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
冤枉 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.