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zhé to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book
niǔ to turn / to twist / to wring / to sprain / to swing one's hips
nǐng mistake / to twist
cuō to rub or roll between the hands or fingers / to twist
扭曲 niǔ to twist / to warp / to distort
jiǎo to twist (strands into a thread) / to entangle / to wring / to hang (by the neck) / to turn / to wind / classifier for skeins of yarn
léi rope / to bind together / to twist around
luò net-like object / to hold sth in place with a net / to wind / to twist / (TCM) channels in the human body
缠绕 chán rào twisting / to twine / to wind / to pester / to bother
天机 tiān mystery known only to heaven (archaic) / inscrutable twist of fate / fig. top secret
lún to classify / to twist silk / silk thread
扭腰 niǔ yāo to sway one's hips / to twist one's waist
一波未平,一波又起 wèi píng , yòu before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved / many twists and turns to a story / one thing after another
强词夺理 qiǎng duó to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats
心如刀绞 xīn dāo jiǎo to feel a pain like a knife being twisted in one's heart (idiom)
wǎng to twist / crooked / unjust / in vain
zhì heavy horse / horse unable to move because of twisted leg / plodding
拗断 ǎo duàn (dialect) to break (by twisting, bending, snapping etc)
扭摆 niǔ bǎi to twist and sway (one's body)
扭结 niǔ jié to tangle up / to twist together / to wind
yuān a small worm / to twist / to surround / empty
空耳 kōng ěr to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
拧开 nǐng kāi to unscrew / to twist off (a lid) / to turn on (a faucet) / to switch on (by turning a knob) / to turn (a door handle) / to wrench apart
缠络 chán luò to wind around / to twist and turn (of road or river)
强扭的瓜不甜 qiǎng niǔ de guā tián lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen


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