| 捻军 | niǎn jūn | Nian Army, leading a peasant rebellion against the Qing dynasty in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui 1851-1868, at the same time as the Taiping Rebellion further south | |
| 捻神捻鬼 | niǎn shén niǎn guǐ | as though in a panic (idiom) |
| 1 | The man twirled his moustache. | |
| 2 | All the curtains around the courtyard were of finely twisted linen. | |
| 3 | The south side shall be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen | |
| 4 | and the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands and the undergarments of finely twisted linen. | |
| 5 | They made the ephod of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen. |