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Kanji Detail for 捏 - "knead, fabricate"
捏
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Meaning
捏 means "knead, fabricate."
Knead - To work clay with the hands.
Fabricate - To force a connection; to contrive.
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
knead; mix
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
pick with fingers; knead; mold
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to hold between the thumb and fingers; to pinch; to mold (using the fingers); to hold (lit. in one's hand and fig.); to join together; to fabricate (a story, a report, etc)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to knead, to mold, to pinch
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Pinching with fingers. Such as molding clay being 捏. Originally written as 捻. | Fabricating is also 捏. Such as 捏造, 捏稱.
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Sentences including 捏
Knead the dough.
これって捏造なの？
Is this a hoax?
The photo was a hoax.
同性愛者の司祭が主教に昇格させられたと聞いたが、結局捏造したものであった。
I heard that a gay priest had been promoted to the rank of bishop, but it turned out to be a fabrication.
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More kanji with the radical 手 扌 (te・tehen)
- 才 talent, ability
- 手 hand, arm
- 打 to strike, to hit
- 払 to pay, to brush off
- 托 entrust, support, request
- 扱 to handle
- 扶 support, help
- 批 to strike
- 技 skill, technique, art
- 抄 to copy, to extract
- 把 grasp, handle, bundle
- 抑 to suppress, to control
- 投 to throw, to pitch, to give up
- 抗 to resist
- 折 to fold, to break, occasion
- 抜 to pull out
- 択 to choose, to select, option
- 承 to hear
- 披 open, reveal
- 抱 to embrace, to employ
- 抵 to touch, to resist
- 抹 erase, rub
- 押 to push, seal
- 抽 to select, abstract
- 拂 brush
- 担 to carry, charge, to take on