憋尿 (biēniào): to hold in one's pee

Meanings

Cháng shíjiān biēniào duì pángguāng bù hǎo.

Holding in your pee for a long time is bad for your bladder.

Wǒ kuài biē bù zhù niào le, děi zhǎo ge cèsuǒ.

I can hardly hold it in any longer, I need to find a toilet.

usage

Separable verb — the object 尿 can be split off: 憋了一会儿尿 ('held it in for a while'), 憋不住尿 ('can't hold it in').

memory

憋 (biē) is the same character used in 憋气 ('hold one's breath') and 憋屈 ('feel stifled'). The 心 underneath = bottling something up inside.

憋 biē

尿 niào