Memory phrase for the character: 拈

拈

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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.)

Mnemonic
 
When the hand is occupying, it grasps with the fingers.

Radicals

扌 handSimplification of this hand 手
占 divineIt is shown a crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told. This radical uses the radical 卜.




 Vocabulary

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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