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Unicode/Hanzi Search: U+62C8 (拈)

62C8
 
pick up with fingers; draw lots
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 5 Total Strokes 8
Mandarin reading nián niān niǎn diān Cantonese reading nim1 nin2
Japanese on reading den sen nen Japanese kun reading tsumamu
Korean reading nyem Vietnamese reading chêm
Specialized Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ niān ]    to nip, to grasp with the fingers, to fiddle with, Taiwan pr. [nian2]
   [ niān zhǐ ]    a snap of the fingers, a short moment, in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye
   [ niān huā caǒ ]    lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom), fig. to womanize, to frequent brothels, to sow one's wild oats
   [ niān suān ]    (old) to be jealous
   [ niān xiāng ]    burn incense
⇒    [ caǒ niān huā ]    see 拈花惹草[nian1 hua1 re3 cao3]
⇒    [ shoǔ daò niān laí ]    lit. to stretch a hand and grab it (idiom), fig. easy to do

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