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- 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)
- (lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control
- (dialect) affecting shyness; coy
- (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties; to threaten
- 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)
Trad. 砌詞捏控
- to make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom)
- affecting shyness or embarrassment
- coy
- mincing (walk, manner of speech)
- mannered
Trad. 憑空捏造
- fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up
- to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)
Trad. 柿子挑軟的捏
- 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[ruan3 shi4 zi5]) who get picked on
- bullies pick soft targets