捏

niē

to hold between the thumb and fingers

Radical: 扌 Strokes: 10

Structure: Left narrow, right wideFrequency: Common

Same radical

打拉指报托折推接投护提排

Same radical

打拉指报托折推接投护提排才扬执

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Character Decomposition

捏=扌+圼

Etymology

hand

Meanings

to hold between the thumb and fingers

to pinch

to mold (using the fingers)

to hold (lit. in one's hand and fig.)

to join together

to fabricate (a story, a report, etc)

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Words with 捏 63 total

(lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control · (dialect) affecting shyness; coy · (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties; to threaten拿捏ná niē to act as a go between捏合niē hé

Idioms with 捏 10 total

to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)捏一把汗niē yī bǎ hàn affecting shyness or embarrassment · coy · mincing (walk, manner of speech) · mannered扭扭捏捏niǔ niǔ niē niē fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up凭空捏造píng kōng niē zào to make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom)砌词捏控qì cí niē kòng