枉
wǎng HSK7

useless

枉 wǎng
crooked idiom
to twist, bend, or be out of alignment; physically or metaphorically distorted

纠枉过正。

jiū wǎng guò​zhèng.

Overcorrecting a mistake can be just as bad as the mistake itself.

in vain verb
uselessly or to no purpose; to waste effort or time

所有的努力都枉费了。

suǒ​yǒu de nǔ​lì dōu wǎng fèi le.

All the efforts were in vain.

unjust verb
to treat someone unfairly or frame them; an injustice or grievance

别冤枉好人。

bié yuān wǎng hǎo​rén.

Don't falsely accuse an innocent person.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,918th most common 11.0 per million
Movie subtitles
3,013th most common 3.42 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.07 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.09 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+6789

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)