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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
niē - 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)
niē - variant of 捏[nie1]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 7 5,297 4,416 2,007

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Hand

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 7 5,297 4,416 2,007
捏造 - - 9,856 26,415 29,021
扭扭捏捏 - - 30,471 64,533 41,586
凭空捏造 - - 35,710 90,845 90,570
捏一把汗 - - 57,500 72,429 62,046
捏合 - - 65,289 77,436 97,652