捏
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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)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 手 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 捏
- Common rank
- #2,688
- Unicode
- U+634F
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Formation & memory
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How 捏 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 meaning “hand” + 圼 sound
Components 扌 圼
How to remember it
pinch · Heisig RSH #1842
fingers + sun + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 捏
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 捏一把冷汗 | to break out into a cold sweat (idiom) | |
| 捏一把汗 | to break out into a cold sweat (idiom) | |
| 凭空捏造 | fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up | |
| 捏脊治疗 | chiropractic (medicine) | |
| 捏合 | to act as a go between | |
| 柿子挑软的捏 | lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom); fig. it's the weak (i… | |
| 砌词捏控 | to make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom) | |
| 捏造 | to make up; to fabricate | |
| 捏积 | see 捏脊[nie1 ji3] | |
| 拿捏 | (lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control; (dialect) affecting shyness; coy; (dialect) to delib… | |
| 捏碎 | to crush (sth) in one's hand | |
| 捏脊 | form of therapeutic massage, mainly for children, in which a roll of skin is squeezed, wor… | |
| 捏估 | to act as a go-between | |
| 扭捏 | affecting shyness or embarrassment; coy; mincing (walk, manner of speech); mannered | |
| 扭扭捏捏 | affecting shyness or embarrassment; coy; mincing (walk, manner of speech); mannered |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 圼 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圼 sound part | — | slime, black mud |
| 涅 | to blacken; slime, black mud |