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niǎn

Meanings

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niǎn
  1. 1.stone roller
  2. 2.roller and millstone
  3. 3.to grind
  4. 4.to crush
  5. 5.to husk

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.roller
  2. 2.to grind; to crush

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Etymology

Alternative form of 輾/辗 (niǎn), using 石 (shí) as semantic part instead of 車/车 (chē). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nja-s ~ *s-njan (“to punish; to oppress; to coerce”) (STEDT). Related to 蹍 (“to trample”).

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