碾
niǎn

roller

碾 niǎn
husk verb
to remove the outer shell or husk from grain using a millstone

他们正在场院里碾谷子，准备过冬的粮食。

tā​men zhèng​zài cháng​yuàn lǐ niǎn gǔ​zi, zhǔn​bèi guò​dōng de liáng​shi.

They are threshing grain in the courtyard to prepare food for the winter.

grind verb
to grind, crush, or pulverize something into powder or small pieces using a heavy roller

医生把药片碾成粉末喂给孩子吃。

yī​shēng bǎ yào​piàn niǎn chéng fěn​mò wèi gěi hái​zi chī.

The doctor crushed the tablet into powder to give to the child.

stone roller noun
a stone roller or a device consisting of a roller and millstone for processing grain

那个沉重的碾是由整块花岗岩凿成的。

nà gè chén​zhòng de niǎn shì yóu zhěng kuài huā​gāng​yán záo​chéng de.

That heavy stone roller was carved from a single block of granite.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,684th most common 4.24 per million
Movie subtitles
2,941st most common 3.78 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.58 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
4.63 per million

Details
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+78BE

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)