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镊

niè

Character Traditional 鑷

What 镊 means

1. bound formtweezers
2. to use tweezers (to grasp, pick up, or pull out etc, depending on whether the following resultative verb is {住|zhù} or {起|qǐ} or {出|chū} etc)

Example sentences

• 你有没有镊子？
  Nǐ yǒuméiyǒu nièzi?
  Do you have a pair of tweezers?

Words starting with 镊

• 镊子niè zitweezers; forceps

Words containing 镊

• 手术镊shǒu shù nièsurgical forceps

Characters built on 聂

These share the phonetic component 聂 (niè), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 蹑nièto walk on tiptoe; to walk quietly; to tread (on)
• 颞nièbones of the temple (on the human head); see 颞颥, temple
• 嗫nièmove the mouth as in speaking

Characters that look like 镊

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 镍niènickel (chemistry)
• 镁měimagnesium (chemistry)
• 槛kǎndoor sill; threshold
• 辘lùused in 辘辘; used in 轱辘; used in 辘轳
• 镛yōnglarge bell
• 毓yù(literary) to produce; to foster; to nurture

Sounds the same

Read niè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 涅(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye); (literary) to dye black
• 孽son born of a concubine; disaster; sin
• 聂to whisper
• 镍nickel (chemistry)
• 啮to gnaw; to erode
• 蹑to walk on tiptoe; to walk quietly; to tread (on)
• 颞bones of the temple (on the human head); see 颞颥, temple
• 嗫move the mouth as in speaking
• 臬guidepost; rule; standard
• 蘖new shoot growing from cut branch or stump
• 摰to seize with the hand; to grasp; to advance
• 陧dangerous