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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *寸* | 寸* | *寸
a unit of length / inch / thumb
HSK 5
clumsy / all thumbs
USB flash drive; thumb drive
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
thumb / big toe
Tom Thumb (small person in folk tales)
thumb
(Tw) USB flash drive; thumb drive
(Internet slang) to form a hand heart using one's thumb and forefinger (or by using both hands)
to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
USB flash drive; thumb drive
to thumb through / to flip through (a book)
thumb / big toe
to give a thumbs-up
rough-and-ready method / rule of thumb
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拇* | 拇* | *拇
thumb / big toe
rectangular frame used to view a scene (made out of cardboard etc, or formed by the thumbs and forefingers) / viewfinder / viewing frame
repetitive strain injury (resulting from frequent use of one's thumb, wrist etc)
tiger's den / dangerous place / the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand
to give a thumbs-up / to express one's approval
ornamental thumb ring (originally a ring, often made from jade, worn by archers in ancient times to protect the right thumb when drawing a bowstring)
to thumb a lift / to hitchhike
to give a thumbs-up
hand gesture in traditional dances (joined thumb and middle finger, the rest extended)
(dialect) henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *擘* | 擘* | *擘
thumb / to break / to tear / to pierce / to split
thumb / big toe / USB flash drive
(computing) flash drive / thumb drive
USB flash drive; thumb drive
to scratch one's foot / (fig.) to be stingy / (slang) (of a celebrity) to twiddle one's thumbs (i.e. not release any new material etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *韘* | 韘* | *韘
archer's thumb ring


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