冤
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injustice; grievance; wrong
Formation & memory
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How 冤 is formed
How to remember it
injustice · Heisig RSH #2887
crown + 兔 rabbit
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 冤
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不白之冤 | unrighted wrong; unredressed injustice | |
| 不是冤家不聚头 | destiny will make enemies meet (idiom); (often said about lovers who have a disagreement) | |
| 冤有头，债有主 | for every grievance someone is responsible, for every debt there is a debtor (idiom); when… | |
| 冤家对头 | enemy (idiom); opponent; arch-enemy | |
| 冤大头 | spendthrift and foolish; sb with more money than sense | |
| 冤家宜解不宜结 | It is better to squash enmity rather than keeping it alive (proverb) | |
| 有仇不报非君子，有冤不伸枉为人 | one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is… | |
| 冤冤相报何时了 | if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying) | |
| 洗冤集录 | "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈[Song4 Ci2], said to be the w… | |
| 欢喜冤家 | quarrelsome but loving couple | |
| 冤头 | enemy; foe | |
| 冤家 | enemy; foe; (in opera) sweetheart or destined love | |
| 冤气 | resentment over unfair treatment | |
| 冤假错案 | unjust, fake and false charges (in a legal case) | |
| 冤情 | facts of an injustice; circumstances surrounding a miscarriage of justice | |
| 冤业 | sin (in Buddhism); enmity leading to sin; also written 冤孽 | |
| 冤死 | to suffer an unjust death | |
| 冤苦 | to treat (sb) unjustly; anguish caused by an injustice | |
| 冤钱 | money spent in vain; wasted money | |
| 蒙冤 | to be wronged; to be subjected to an injustice |