捻 niǎn to twist or nip with the fingers Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 捻军 Niǎnjūn Nian Army Nian Army, leading a peasant rebellion against the Qing dynasty in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui 1851-1868, at the same time as the Taiping Rebellion further south Sources Frequency data MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CH