niǎn

twirl in fingers

Evolution

撚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

niǎn

twirl in fingers, tease, toy with; to play tricks on or toy with; delicate; exquisite (Cantonese)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+649A

Shuowen

“撚,執也。从手,然聲。一曰蹂也。”


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