niǎn

roller

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

展 sound component

  Sound component

zhǎn

  

open

Definitions

 

niǎn

roller, crush; roll; stone roller; roller and millstone; to grind; to crush; to husk

Most common words with 碾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

stone roller

碾碎

to pulverize

水碾

water mill

碾子

roller (used for milling or crushing)

碾压

to crush or compact by means of a roller

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.2105% of movies

2940th most common character in movies

3684th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+78BE


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