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Hanzi Character Search: 扭

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扭
turn, twist, wrench; seize, grasp
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 4 Total Strokes 7
Mandarin reading niǔ Cantonese reading nau2
Japanese on reading juu nyu chuu chu Japanese kun reading nejimawasu
Korean reading Vietnamese reading

CEDICT Entries:

   [ niǔ shāng ]    a sprain, a crick, to sprain
   [ niǔ niǔ ]    Twister (game)
   [ niǔ baǐ ]    to twist and sway (one's body)
   [ niǔ jié ]    to tangle up, to twist together, to wind
   [ niǔ kuī ]    to make good a deficit, to reverse a loss
   [ niǔ zhuǎn ]    to reverse, to turn around (an undesirable situation), (mechanics) torsion
   [ niǔ zhuǎn qián kūn ]    lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom), fig. to change the course of events, to turn things around
   [ niǔ toú ]    to turn one's head, to turn around
⇒    [ qiǎng niǔ de guā tián ]    lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom), fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
⇒    [ biè niu ]    awkward, difficult, uncomfortable, not agreeing, at loggerheads, gauche
⇒    [ niǔ niǔ ]    Twister (game)
⇒    [ niǔ ]    to wring
⇒    [ naò biè niu ]    to be difficult with sb, to provoke disagreement, at loggerheads, to fall out with

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