揪 — Chinese character
揪
jiū
to pinch, to grasp
- Pinyin
- jiū
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 扌 秋
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 秋
Common words with 揪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 揪出 | jiū chū | to uncover; to ferret out (the culprit) |
| 揪心 | jiū xīn | lit. grips the heart; worried |
| 揪住 | jiū zhù | to grab |
| 揪斗 (揪鬥) | jiū dòu | to seize and subject to public criticism (form of persecution during the Cultural Revolution) |
| 揪心扒肝 | jiū xīn bā gān | (idiom) extremely anxious; anguished |
| 揪心揪肺 | jiū xīn jiū fèi | heart-wrenching |
| 揪揪 | jiū jiu | creased; wrinkled; depressed; worried; upset |
| 揪痧 | jiū shā | folk remedy involving repeatedly pinching the neck, throat, back etc to increase blood flow to the area and relieve inflammation |
| 揪辫子 (揪辮子) | jiū biàn zi | to grab sb by the queue (i.e. hair); to seize on weak points |
| 揪送 | jiū sòng | to seize and send (to court, to face punishment) |
English words written with 揪
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.