nuó
verb HSK 7-9 #4,999

Meanings

  1. 1 to move; to shift (position)
  2. 2 to appropriate; to divert (funds)

Examples

HSK 3
Bǎ yǐzi nuó yīxià.
Move the chair a little.
HSK 3
Tā nuóyòng le gōngsī de zījīn.
He embezzled company funds.
HSK 7-9
Nǐ néng nuó gè wèizi ma?
Can you scoot over a bit?

Tips

usage
implies a small, lateral movement - nudging, scooting, shifting something a short distance. It's not for big moves (that's bān). 挪用 (nuóyòng) = to misappropriate/embezzle - literally 'move the use' of money to where it shouldn't go.

Components

radical
shǒu
hand (radical form)
Hand radical - moving, shifting, and shuffling are hand actions, so joins the family with shift, move, drag. The radical also marks the very physical, 'with-the-hands' quality of : not a grand relocation but a careful nudge.
phonetic
that
Phonetic - nà → nuó (initial preserved, vowel shifted). Also the phonetic for which/where, graceful, sodium. here lends only its sound; the 'that-ness' meaning of has no semantic role in .

Stroke Order

nuó