捏脊
niē jǐ
Pinyin

Definition

捏脊
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niē jǐ
  1. 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)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

捏
niē
  1. 1 to pinch (with one's fingers)
  2. 2 to knead
  3. 3 to make up
扭捏
niǔ nie
  1. 1 affecting shyness or embarrassment
  2. 2 coy
  3. 3 mincing (walk, manner of speech)
  4. 4 mannered
拿捏
ná niē
  1. 1 to grasp
  2. 2 (dialect) affecting shyness
  3. 3 coy
  4. 4 to create difficulties
捏造
niē zào
  1. 1 to make up
  2. 2 to fabricate
脊柱
jǐ zhù
  1. 1 spinal column
  2. 2 columna vertebralis
脊梁
jǐ liáng
  1. 1 backbone
  2. 2 spine
  3. 3 Taiwan pr. [jǐ liang]
脊椎
jǐ zhuī
  1. 1 vertebra
  2. 2 backbone
脊背
jǐ bèi
  1. 1 back (of a human or other vertebrate)
里脊
lǐ ji
  1. 1 (tender)loin (of pork, beef etc)
屋脊
wū jǐ
  1. 1 roof ridge
山脊
shān jǐ
  1. 1 mountain ridge
凭空捏造
píng kōng niē zào
  1. 1 fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up
戳脊梁骨
chuō jǐ liang gǔ
  1. 1 to criticize behind sb's back
  2. 2 back-biting
捏合
niē hé
  1. 1 to act as a go between
捏脊
niē jǐ
  1. 1 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)
书脊
shū jǐ
  1. 1 spine of a book
无脊椎
wú jǐ zhuī
  1. 1 invertebrate
背脊
bèi jǐ
  1. 1 the back of the human body
脊
jǐ
  1. 1 spine
  2. 2 back
  3. 3 ridge
  4. 4 Taiwan pr. [jí] or [jǐ]
脊柱侧凸
jǐ zhù cè tū
  1. 1 scoliosis

Idioms (6)

凭空捏造
píng kōng niē zào
  1. 1 fabrication relying on nothing (idiom); frame-up
捏一把冷汗
niē yī bǎ lěng hàn
  1. 1 to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)
捏一把汗
niē yī bǎ hàn
  1. 1 to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)
柿子挑软的捏
shì zi tiāo ruǎn de niē
  1. 1 lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's the weak (i.e. 軟柿子|软柿子[ruǎn shì zi]) who get picked on
  3. 3 bullies pick soft targets
砌词捏控
qì cí niē kòng
  1. 1 to make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom)
蹿房越脊
cuān fáng yuè jǐ
  1. 1 lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)

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