Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- niē
English
- pick with fingers
- to hold between the thumb and fingers
- knead
- to pinch
- mold
- to mold (using the fingers)
- to hold (lit. in one's hand and fig.)
- to join together
- to fabricate (a story, a report, etc)
- to pinch; to hold with the fingers
- to mould; to knead
粵語
- 用姆指同食指輕輕用力夾住
- 用手指將軟淋淋嘅嘢整出某程度嘅型狀
Variants
Words containing 捏
- 捏造nip6 zou6
to make up
- 拿捏naa6 nip6
(lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control
- 捏合nip6 hap6
to act as a go between
- 捏估nip6 gu2
to act as a go-between
- 捏脊nip6 zek3
form of therapeutic massage, mainly for children, in which a roll of skin is squeezed, working from the base of the spine to the neck (TCM)
- 誣捏mou4 nip6
to slander, to falsely accuse (someone)
- 捏起nip6 hei2
- 捏積nip6 zik1
see 捏脊[nie1 ji3]
- 捏碎nip6 seoi3
to crush (sth) in one's hand
- 扭捏nau2 nip6
affecting shyness or embarrassment
- 揉捏jau4 nip6
- 憑空捏造pang4 hung1 nip6 zou6
fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up
- 捏一把汗nip6 jat1 baa2 hon6
to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)
- 捏脊治療nip6 zek3 zi6 liu4
chiropractic (medicine)
- 砌詞捏控cai3 ci4 nip6 hung3
to make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom)
- 扭扭捏捏nau2 nau2 nip6 nip6
affecting shyness or embarrassment
- 扭扭捏捏nau2 nau2 nip6 nip6
affecting shyness or embarrassment
- 捏一把冷汗nip6 jat1 baa2 laang5 hon6
to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)
- 柿子挑軟的捏ci2 zi2 tiu1 jyun5 dik1 nip6
lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom)