niǎn

  1. niǎn verb twirl in fingers
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Variant of 捻 (CC-CEDICT '撚'; Guoyu '撚' v 3; Kroll 2015 '撚' 2, p. 324; Unihan '撚')
  2. niǎn verb pick up with fingers
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '撚'; Guoyu '撚' v 2; Kroll 2015 '撚' 1, p. 324)
  3. niǎn verb to stamp the feet
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '撚' v 4; Kroll 2015 '撚' 1, p. 324)
  4. niǎn verb to drive away
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '撚' v 4)
  5. niǎn verb to pluck strings on a piba
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '撚' v 5)
  6. niǎn verb sieze by the hand; grah
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: grah, Japanese: nen (BCSD '撚', p. 562; MW 'grah'; Unihan '撚')

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 19 Mūlasarvāstivādabhikṣuṇīvinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Bi Chu Ni Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部苾芻尼毘奈耶 — count: 11
  • Scroll 22 Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶 — count: 11
  • Scroll 2 Vairocana Sutra Lotus Platform Matrix Assembly Compassion Mandala Liturgy (She Da Piluzhena Cheng Fo Shenbian Jia Chi Jing Ru Lianhua Tai Cang Hai Hui Bei Sheng Man Tu Luo Guangda Niansong Yi Gui Gongyang Fangbian Hui) 攝大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經入蓮華胎藏海會悲生曼荼攞廣大念誦儀軌供養方便會 — count: 6
  • Scroll 5 Supplement to the Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 續一切經音義 — count: 5
  • Scroll 35 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 4
  • Scroll 61 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 4
  • Scroll 1 Uṣṇīṣacakravartitantra (Yizi Qite Fo Ding Jing) 一字奇特佛頂經 — count: 4
  • Scroll 62 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 4
  • Scroll 40 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 3
  • Scroll 1 Parṇaśavarīdhāraṇīsūtra (Ye Yi Guanzizai Pusa Jing) 葉衣觀自在菩薩經 — count: 3

Collocations

  • 手撚 (手撚) 自手撚縷學處 — Mūlasarvāstivādabhikṣuṇīvinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Bi Chu Ni Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部苾芻尼毘奈耶, Scroll 19 — count: 7
  • 撚成 (撚成) 或以五色粉撚成 — Mahāmaṇivipulavimānaviśvasupratiṣṭhitaguhyaparamarahasyakalparājadhāraṇī (Dabao Guangbo Louge Shan Zhu Mimi Tuoluoni Jing) 大寶廣博樓閣善住祕密陀羅尼經, Scroll 2 — count: 7
  • 撚箭 (撚箭) 右手撚箭勢 — Śriparamādhyamantrākalpakhaṇḍa 佛說最上根本大樂金剛不空三昧大教王經, Scroll 5 — count: 6
  • 撚劫 (撚劫) 依此園林撚劫貝線以自活命 — Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavibhaṅga (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶, Scroll 37 — count: 5
  • 指撚 (指撚) 指撚為丸 — Uṣṇīṣacakravartitantra (Yizi Qite Fo Ding Jing) 一字奇特佛頂經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
  • 粉撚 (粉撚) 或以五色粉撚成 — Mahāmaṇivipulavimānaviśvasupratiṣṭhitaguhyaparamarahasyakalparājadhāraṇī (Dabao Guangbo Louge Shan Zhu Mimi Tuoluoni Jing) 大寶廣博樓閣善住祕密陀羅尼經, Scroll 2 — count: 4
  • 撚线 (撚線) 童女撚線不割截 — Uṣṇīṣacakravartitantra (Yizi Qite Fo Ding Jing) 一字奇特佛頂經, Scroll 1 — count: 4
  • 撚音 (撚音) 撚音年典反 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 33 — count: 3
  • 撚髭 (撚髭) 彼撚髭令翹 — Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律, Scroll 51 — count: 3
  • 撚帝 (撚帝) 撚帝 — Parṇaśavarīdhāraṇīsūtra (Ye Yi Guanzizai Pusa Jing) 葉衣觀自在菩薩經, Scroll 1 — count: 3