扭
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to turn; to twist; to wring; to sprain; to swing one's hips
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 手 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 扭
- Common rank
- #2,131
- Unicode
- U+626D
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
twist · Heisig RSH #1487
fingers + 丑 clown
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 扭
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 强扭的瓜不甜 | lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because… | |
| 扭头 | to turn one's head; to turn around | |
| 扭力 | torque; turning force; torsion | |
| 扭打 | to wrestle; to grapple; to scuffle | |
| 扭转 | to reverse; to turn around (an undesirable situation); (mechanics) torsion | |
| 扭结 | to tangle up; to twist together; to wind | |
| 扭曲 | to twist; to warp; to distort | |
| 闹别扭 | to be difficult with sb; to provoke disagreement; at loggerheads; to fall out with | |
| 别扭 | awkward; difficult; uncomfortable; not agreeing; at loggerheads; gauche | |
| 七扭八歪 | misshapen; crooked; uneven (idiom) | |
| 扭蛋 | toy in a capsule (dispensed from a vending machine) | |
| 扭伤 | a sprain; a crick; to sprain | |
| 扭送 | to seize and hand sb over to the authorities | |
| 扭扭乐 | Twister (game) | |
| 扭腰 | to sway one's hips; to twist one's waist | |
| 扭亏为盈 | (idiom) to get into the black; to become profitable | |
| 扭摆 | to twist and sway (one's body) | |
| 扭角羚 | takin (Budorcas taxicolor); goat-antelope | |
| 睾丸扭转 | (medicine) testicular torsion | |
| 扭亏 | to make good a deficit; to reverse a loss |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 丑 — compare how they read.