| jiū | to seize/to clutch/to hold tight/to grip |
| 揪 | to seize to clutch to hold tight |
| 揪住 | to grab |
| 揪出 | to grab and open out to uncover to ferret out (the culprit) |
| 揪心 | lit. grips the heart worried anxious |
| 揪心扒肝 | lit. grips the heart, seizes the liver (idiom); fear grips the heart worried out of one's wits scared stiff |
| 揪心揪肺 | heart-wrenching |
| 揪扯 | Catch and pull |
| 揪揪 | creased and crumpled depressed |
| 揪斗 | to seize and struggle with to tussle with fig. to seize and subject to public criticism (e.g. right-roaders during cultural revolution) |
| 揪痧 | sunstroke treatment |
| 揪辫子 | to grab sb by the queue (i.e. hair) to seize on weak points to exploit the opponent's shortcomings |
| 揪送 | to seize and send (to court, to face punishment) |
| 揪错 | lit. to grab wrong misconception blunder |