Memory phrase for the character: 拈
拈
Meaning
to grasp with fingers, to nip, to draw lots Pronunciation niān Explanation Left: hand 扌, right: fortune telling, to occupy 占 (Here: The stick 卜 is firm in the gripping 口 hand.)
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When the hand is occupying, it grasps with the fingers. Radicals
扌
hand Simplification of this hand 手
占
divine It is shown a crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told. This radical uses the radical 卜.
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Vocabulary
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拈香 niān xiāng
burn incense
拈花惹草
niān huā rě cǎo
to play with flowers and grass (idiom); to philander; to frequent brothels; to sow one's wild oats
拈指 niān zhǐ
a snap of the fingers; a short moment; in a flash; in the twinkling of an eye
拈指 niān zhǐ
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