挪
to shift; to move
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,092 U+632A
How 挪 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 那 (phonetic, nà)
How to remember it
transfer · Heisig RSH #2938
Alcatraz + fingers
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 那
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 那 (nà) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 那 sound component | nà | that, that one, those |
| 娜 | nà | elegant, graceful, delicate |
| 哪 | nǎ | which? where? how? |
Words containing 挪
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 树挪死，人挪活 | shù nuó sǐ , rén nuó huó | lit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom); fig. hum… |
| 挪亚方舟 | Nuó yà fāng zhōu | Noah's ark |
| 挪窝儿 | nuó wō r | (dialect) to move (after being some time in the same place); to move (house) |
| 闪转腾挪 | shǎn zhuǎn téng nuó | to move nimbly about, dodging and weaving (martial arts) |
| 挪动 | nuó dòng | to move; to shift |
| 挪开 | nuó kāi | to move (sth) aside; to step aside; to move over (when sitting on a bench); to shift (one'… |
| 挪亚 | Nuó yà | Noah |
| 挪用 | nuó yòng | to shift (funds); to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use t… |
| 挪威 | Nuó wēi | Norway |
| 挪借 | nuó jiè | to borrow money for a short time |
| 腾挪 | téng nuó | to move; to shift; to move out of the way; to divert (money etc) to a different purpose |