捏
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)
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,688 U+634F
How 捏 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 圼 (phonetic)
components: 扌 圼
How to remember it
pinch · Heisig RSH #1842
fingers + sun + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 圼
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 圼 (—) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圼 sound component | — | slime, black mud |
| 涅 | niè | to blacken; slime, black mud |
Words containing 捏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 捏一把冷汗 | niē yī bǎ lěng hàn | to break out into a cold sweat (idiom) |
| 捏一把汗 | niē yī bǎ hàn | to break out into a cold sweat (idiom) |
| 凭空捏造 | píng kōng niē zào | fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up |
| 捏脊治疗 | niē jǐ zhì liáo | chiropractic (medicine) |
| 捏合 | niē hé | to act as a go between |
| 柿子挑软的捏 | shì zi tiāo ruǎn de niē | lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom); fig. it's the weak (i… |
| 砌词捏控 | qì cí niē kòng | to make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom) |
| 捏造 | niē zào | to make up; to fabricate |
| 捏积 | niē jī | see 捏脊[nie1 ji3] |
| 拿捏 | ná niē | (lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control; (dialect) affecting shyness; coy; (dialect) to delib… |
| 捏碎 | niē suì | to crush (sth) in one's hand |
| 捏脊 | niē jǐ | form of therapeutic massage, mainly for children, in which a roll of skin is squeezed, wor… |
| 捏估 | niē gu | to act as a go-between |
| 扭捏 | niǔ nie | affecting shyness or embarrassment; coy; mincing (walk, manner of speech); mannered |
| 扭扭捏捏 | niǔ niǔ niē niē | affecting shyness or embarrassment; coy; mincing (walk, manner of speech); mannered |