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 hand
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.
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 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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