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see 捏脊
(lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control / (dialect) affecting shyness; coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties; to threaten
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
fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up
to make up / to fabricate
to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)
affecting shyness or embarrassment / coy / mincing (walk, manner of speech) / mannered
form of therapeutic massage, mainly for children, in which a roll of skin is squeezed, working from the base of the spine to the neck (TCM)
to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)
affecting shyness or embarrassment / coy / mincing (walk, manner of speech) / mannered
to act as a go between
to make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom)
to act as a go-between
chiropractic (medicine)
lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom) / fig. it's the weak (i.e. 軟柿子|软柿子) who get picked on / bullies pick soft targets
to crush (sth) in one's hand
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *捏* | 捏* | *捏
variant of
HSK 7-9


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