拈
拈
v. to pick up (with the thumb and one or two fingers); pick and choose
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Simplified stroke orders are based on the 'Standard of National Commonly-used Mandarin Chinese Characters (现代汉语通用字笔顺规范)', issued by the China National Language and Character Working Committee (国家语言文字工作委员会) on April 7th 1997. Traditional stroke orders are based on information issued by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.
EXAMPLES
他 他 phr. He picked up a flower. |
拈 拈 idiom. have affairs with women, flirt with females, have promiscuous relations with women |
信 信 idiom. to have one's words at hand -- to write without stopping to think |
拈 拈 idiom. to pick the easy jobs and shirk the hard ones |