走偏

to deviate from the correct course / (fig.) to go astray

to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]) / to change (shape, form, meaning)

to lean / to slant / oblique / prejudiced / to deviate from average / to stray from the intended line / stubbornly / contrary to expectations

to write with the tip of the brush tilted / (fig.) to resort to devious means

the sword moves with side stroke (modern idiom) / fig. unexpected winning move / unconventional gambit

Jian Zoupianfeng, pseudonym of prolific modern novelist