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HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *指* | 指* | *指
finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *戒* | 戒* | *戒
to guard against / to exhort / to admonish or warn / to give up or stop doing sth / Buddhist monastic discipline / ring (for a finger)
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甲* | 甲* | *甲
first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
HSK 5
finger / toe / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摳* | 摳* | *摳
to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed) / to carve; to cut / to study meticulously / stingy; miserly / to lift up (esp. the hem of a robe)
HSK 7-9
(finger) ring
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搓* | 搓* | *搓
to rub or roll between the hands or fingers / to twist
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捏* | 捏* | *捏
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)
HSK 7-9
to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger
HSK 7-9
guqin or qin, a long zither with seven strings, plucked with the fingers
(music) fingering / (TCM) manipulation of acupuncture needles / (keyboard) typing technique / (dance) hand movements / (painting) finger method
index finger / (literary) mouths to feed
middle finger
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *搵* | 搵* | *搵
(literary) to wipe away (tears) / to press with one's fingers / to soak
(finger) ring
fingerprint / the arches, loops and whorls on the fingers
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *豁* | 豁* | *豁
to play Chinese finger-guessing game
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掩* | 掩* | *掩
to cover up; to conceal / to close (a door, book etc) / (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid / (literary) to launch a surprise attack
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撳* | 撳* | *撳
to press (with one's hand or finger)
index finger
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *揸* | 揸* | *揸
to stretch fingers out
fingertip / finger
little finger
(coll.) while doing it; on the way through / (coll.) immediately; at once / (of a touch screen) responsive to the user's finger movements
to gesticulate / to point out / to point the finger of blame
to snap one's fingers / (fig.) in a flash; in an instant
lit. can be counted on one's fingers (idiom) / fig. very few
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拈* | 拈* | *拈
to nip / to grasp with the fingers / to fiddle with / Taiwan pr. [nian2]
to put one's hands behind one's head, fingers interlaced / to hold one's head in one's hands (in dismay, fright etc) / to cover one's head with one's hands (for protection)
ring finger
to draw together / to place side by side (e.g. one's fingers, two halves of a torn sheet of paper etc)
index finger
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摁* | 摁* | *摁
to press (with one's finger or hand)
to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers
hand gesture in traditional dances (joined thumb and middle finger, the rest extended)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捋* | 捋* | *捋
to smooth or arrange sth using one's fingers / to stroke
the five fingers of one's hand
circular finger movement (in playing plucked instrument) / strumming
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt / fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
thieving / light-fingered / prone to stealing
to count on one's fingers
springtime bamboo shoots / fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate
to dip a finger (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action / abbr. for 染指於鼎|染指于鼎
to cleave / to split open / to spread open (fingers, legs)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *唿* | 唿* | *唿
to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / (onom.) for the sound of the wind
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鎦* | 鎦* | *鎦
(bound form) finger ring / Taiwan pr. [liu2]
fingerprint / finger mark / thumbprint
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捻* | 捻* | *捻
to twirl (in the fingers)
lit. with calluses on hands and feet (idiom) / fig. to work one's fingers to the bone
to count on one's fingers
to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / nowadays written 呼哨
to enjoy (the benefit of sth) without lifting a finger; to sit back and enjoy (favorable circumstances)
lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action
little finger / pinkie
sticks used for squeezing the fingers (old form of torture)
to count with one's fingers / on the spot calculation
finger-guessing game / rock-paper-scissors game / morra
to squeeze the fingers (old form of torture)
(dialect) finger ring
finger-guessing game
to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences / to get one's fingers burnt
petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish) / empty-handed / having nothing
as the arm moves the finger (idiom) / freely and effortlessly / to have perfect command of
to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth) / nowadays written 呼哨
finger-guessing game
lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom); fig. greedy to seize sth
okra (Hibiscus esculentus) / lady's fingers
to finger-rape; digital rape
to win without needing to even lift a finger / victory presented on a platter
index finger
a snap of the fingers / a short moment / in a flash / in the twinkling of an eye
okra (Hibiscus esculentus) / lady's fingers
to face a thousand pointing fingers with a cool scowl (citation from Lu Xun) / to treat with disdain / to defy
(saying) people don't get up early unless there is some benefit in doing so / won't lift a finger unless there's something in it for oneself
finger ring (dialect)
a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash / in the twinkling of an eye
(palmistry) fate line; career prospects line (running vertically up the palm to the base of the middle finger) / (slang) cleavage
to lay a finger on sb; to harm sb in the slightest way
(finger) ring
hand-held mutton (mutton pieces on the bone, eaten with the fingers)
to cross little fingers (between children) as a promise
squeezing the fingers between sticks (old form of torture)
to give the middle finger
fat finger error (finance)
the cooked duck flew away (proverb) / (fig.) to let a sure thing slip through one's fingers
brachydactylism (genetic abnormality of short or missing fingers)
to give the middle finger
antipinch (e.g. preventing catching fingers in automatic car windows)
okra (Hibiscus esculentus) / lady's fingers


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