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鑷

简镊 · 繁鑷

Mandarin · pinyin niè

(bound form) tweezers
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)

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镊: niè · tweezers, forceps, pincers

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nip6

Cantonese word readings for 鑷. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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tweezers; forceps; pincers
to nip by forceps

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