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niǎn

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niǎn Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
niǎn | nian3
English translation
to twist or nip with the fingers

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About niǎn

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

niǎn

Contains the radical

shǒu

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

hand

Etymology of niǎn

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

扌念

Semantic compound

shǒu

Phonetic compound

niàn

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. shǒu represents the meaning and niàn represents the sound.

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Example sentences using niǎn

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不行 bù xíng , ” xìng de 忧愁 yōu chóu de shuì ; dàn 随即 suíjí 咽住 yàn zhù le , niǎn zhāo chún biān jǐn yǒu de 几根二三分 cháng 的髭.

" Bad,'said Wu looking worried and toying with his moustache.

niǎn liàng le dēng .

I turned up the lamp.

黑根灵机 líng jī dòng , shǒu shuǎi ,同时 tóngshí 把手 bǎshǒu zhǐ niǎn 劈啪 pī pā 劈啪 pī pā 作响.

Hagen snapped his fingers. " That detective , that guy Phillips.

埃斯特拉达 Cóng 法衣 fǎ yī 取出 qǔ chū 一串念珠 niàn zhū yòng 一只 shǒu 捻动起来 qǐlai

Estrada took a rosary from his tunic and ran the beads through the fingers of one hand.

hǎo ,” biān shuì biān 紧张不安 de 香烟 xiāng yān zài 花岗岩 huā gāng yán 台阶 táijiē shǎng 捻灭

"Well," I said, grinding my cigarette nervously into the granite step.

Words with niǎn

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
niǎn to twirl (in the fingers) niǎn
捻军 Niǎn jūn Nien Army, leading a peasant rebellion against Qing dynasty in Northern China from 1851-1868, at the same time as the Taiping Rebellion in South China捻軍

niǎn Decomposition & Compounds

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