歪
wāiwǎi HSK7

slant

歪 wāi frequency
askew adjective
at a crooked angle or slanted; not straight

画挂歪了。

huà guà wāi le.

The painting is hanging crookedly.

devious adjective
morally wrong, dishonest, or noxious

他总想些歪主意。

tā zǒng xiǎng xiē wāi zhǔ​yi.

He's always coming up with devious ideas.

lie down verb
(colloquial) to lean or lie on one's side to rest

他在沙发上歪一会儿。

tā zài shā​fā shàng wāi yī​huì​r.

He's reclining on the sofa for a while.

歪 wǎi
sprain verb
to sprain (one's ankle) (Taiwan usage)

他下楼梯时不小心歪了脚，疼得走不动路。

tā xià lóu​tī shí bù xiǎo​xīn wǎi le jiǎo, téng de zǒu bù dòng lù.

He accidentally sprained his ankle while going downstairs and it hurt too much to walk.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,239th most common 27.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,283rd most common 12.4 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
13.1 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
16.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+6B6A

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