拗 - crooked, twisted, distorted

insistent; obstinate; persistent; tenacious

complications; tangle

to aggravate; to complicate; to make worse

to curve; to twist; to be rebellious

perverse individual; cynic; misanthrope

persistent; obstinate; tenacious; relentless; insistent; importunate; persevering; stubborn

contracted sound; palatalised sound (e.g. Japanese morae with small kana); palatalized sound

to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour

to be peevish; to sulk; to pout

contracted sound

to make worse (e.g. disease); to aggravate; to complicate