揉
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to knead; to massage; to rub
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 手 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 揉
- Common rank
- #3,093
- Unicode
- U+63C9
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Formation & memory
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How 揉 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A gentle 柔 hand 扌; 柔 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
knead · Heisig RSH #1004
fingers + 柔 gentle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 揉
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 眼里揉不得沙子 | see 眼裡容不得沙子|眼里容不得沙子[yan3 li3 rong2 bu5 de2 sha1 zi5] | |
| 矫揉造作 | pretension; affectation; putting on artificial airs | |
| 众说纷揉 | lit. diverse opinions confused and divided (idiom); opinions differ; controversial matters | |
| 揉合 | to blend; to merge; to mix together | |
| 揉制 | to knead (leather) | |
| 揉和 | to knead (clay) | |
| 掰开揉碎 | lit. to pull apart and knead to a pulp; fig. to analyze minutely from every angle; to chew… | |
| 揉磨 | to torment; to torture | |
| 揉碎 | to crush; to crumble into pieces | |
| 揉搓 | to rub; to torment; to torture | |
| 搓揉 | to knead; to rub |