| 冤 | yuān | injustice; grievance; wrong |
| 冤枉 | yuān wang | hatred; injustice; bad luck; unjust treatment; wronged; not worthwhile |
| 窦娥冤 | Dòu É yuān | The Injustice to Dou E (popular drama by 关汉卿) |
| 冤屈 | yuān qū | to receive unjust treatment; injustice |
| 冤家 | yuān jiā | enemy; foe; in opera, sweetheart or destined love |
| 含冤 | hán yuān | wronged; to suffer false accusations |
| 冤狱 | yuān yù | unjust charge or verdict; miscarriage of justice; frame-up |
| 冤仇 | yuān chóu | rancor; enmity; hatred resulting from grievances |
| 伸冤 | shēn yuān | to right wrongs; to redress an injustice |
| 冤魂 | yuān hún | ghost of one who died unjustly; departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances |
| 不白之冤 | bù bái zhī yuān | unrighted wrong; unredressed injustice |
| 冤假错案 | yuān jiǎ cuò àn | unjust, fake and false charges (in a legal case) |
| 冤大头 | yuān dà tóu | spendthrift and foolish; sb with more money than sense |
| 冤孽 | yuān niè | sin (in Buddhism); enmity leading to sin |
| 冤家对头 | yuān jiā duì tóu | enemy (idiom); opponent; arch-enemy |
| 冤家路窄 | yuān jiā lù zhǎi | lit. enemies on a narrow road (idiom); fig. an inevitable clash between opposing factions |
| 冤情 | yuān qíng | facts of an injustice; circumstances surrounding a miscarriage of justice |
| 冤抑 | yuān yì | to suffer injustice |
| 冤枉路 | yuān wang lù | pointless trip; not worth the trip |
| 冤枉钱 | yuān wang qián | pointless expense; not worth the money spent |
| 冤案 | yuān àn | miscarriage of justice |
| 冤业 | yuān yè | sin (in Buddhism); enmity leading to sin; also written 冤孽 |
| 冤死 | yuān sǐ | to die of persecution |
| 冤气 | yuān qì | unfair treatment; injustice |
| 冤苦 | yuān kǔ | suffering from injustice |
| 冤诬 | yuān wū | unjust charge; frame-up |
| 冤钱 | yuān qián | pointless expense; not worth the money spent |
| 冤头 | yuān tóu | enemy; foe |
| 前生冤孽 | qián shēng yuān niè | predestined relationship |
| 喊冤 | hǎn yuān | to cry out a grievance |
| 洗冤 | xǐ yuān | lit. to wash out a grievance; fig. to right a wrong; to redress an injustice |
| 洗冤集录 | Xǐ yuān jí lù | Record of Washed Grievances (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈, said to be the world's first legal forensic text |
| 烦冤 | fán yuān | frustrated; agitated; distressed |
| 申冤 | shēn yuān | to appeal for justice; to demand redress for a grievance |
| 诉冤 | sù yuān | to complain; to vent one's grievances |
| 黑籍冤魂 | hēi jí yuān hún | Black register of lost souls, long novel by Peng Yangou 彭养鸥 about the destructive influence of opium, published in 1897 and 1909 |
