走弯路 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 走彎路 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. zǒuwānlù ㄗㄡˇ ㄨㄢ ㄌㄨˋ to take an indirect route to waste one's time by using an inappropriate method Character by character 走(zǒu)walk 弯(wān)bend 路(lù)road A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT