捩
捩 — ryeol
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 비틀 렬
- Romanization
- ryeol
- English
- twist with hands; snap, tear
- Mandarin
- liè
- Japanese on'yomi
- レイ, ライ, レツ, レチ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- よじ.る ね.じる ねじ.れる もじ.る
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 手 (64, 8 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6369
Japanese words with 捩
- 捩りもじり parody (of a famous work); pun
- 捩るねじる to twist; to screw; to wrench
- 捩花ねじばな Chinese spiranthis (Spiranthes sinensis var. amoena)
- 捩れねじれ twist; wrench; distortion
- 捩木ねじき Lyonia ovalifolia (species of plant in the Ericaceae family)
- 捩摺もじずり Chinese spiranthis (Spiranthes sinensis var. amoena)
- 捩れるねじれる to get twisted; to get crooked; to get warped
- 逆捩じさかねじ turning an object in the wrong direction; retort
- 捩じりねじり torsion; apply torque
- 捩じ取るねじとる to wring off; to wrest from
- 捩じ倒すねじたおす to wrench someone down to the ground
- 捩じくれるねじくれる to curve; to twist; to be contrary
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)