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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- nie1
- English meanings
- 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), variant of 捏[nie1]
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 扌; right 圼.
Meaning & sound clues
扌 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “hand”.
圼 is identified as the sound component (niè). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 捏.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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blacken; nirvana
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