捏 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. niē ㄋㄧㄝ to hold between the thumb and fingers to pinch to mold (using the fingers) to hold (lit. in one's hand and fig.) to join together to fabricate (a story, a report, etc) Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT