拐弯
guǎi​wān HSK7

new direction

拐弯 (拐彎) guǎi​wān
new direction verb
a figurative change in direction, course of action, or way of thinking

既然这个办法行不通，我们的思路得拐弯了。

jì​rán zhè​ge bàn​fǎ xíng bù tōng, wǒ​men de sī​lù děi guǎi​wān le.

Since this method doesn't work, we need to change our way of thinking.

turn verb
to go around a curve or turn a corner

请在前面的红绿灯处向左拐弯。

qǐng zài qián​miàn de hóng​lǜ​dēng chù xiàng zuǒ guǎi​wān.

Please turn left at the traffic light ahead.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
1.40 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.09 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has erhua variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)