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撚
niǎn

twirl in fingers

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangneːnʔ
Unicodeněn

說文解字

執也。从手然聲。一曰蹂也。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)