扭 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

niǔ

turn

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 丑 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

丑 Sound component

chǒu

second earthly branch; (simp.) ugly

Definitions

niǔ

turn, twist, wrench; seize, grasp; to turn; to twist; to wring; to sprain; to swing one's hips

Most common words with 扭

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 15.6655% of movies

1689th most common character in movies

1805th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Unicode	U+626D

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