Is there a syllable rua?

[A life of study]

I bought all 9 of the Boya Hanyu books, and as revision I am quickly going through even the easy stuff. But the pronunciation unit lists rua as a possible syllable without examples. And yet I can't find any characters pronounced rua...

Oh, I found one in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, but it is not listed in Wenlin

[chenpv]

In Shaanxi dialect, rua2 means 'to knead'.

[A life of study]

and 揉 róu in putonghua, right? 揉面团, knead dough, right?

[Lu]

My input method gives 挼 when I type, so perhaps it exists.

Note that those syllable lists are not always 100% correct. Elsewhere there is one that lists biang as a possibility, although there really is no such sound in Mandarin (except in Xi' an).

[chenpv]

Sister Lu's input is correct.

[889]

My dictionary shows 挼 having two readings and two meanings.

As a verb meaning "to crease" in dialect it's read rúa.

As a verb meaning "to rub" or "to knead" in written works it's read ruó.

Wenlin only shows the second reading/meaning.

[tooironic]

Btw, there is a biang character/syllable according to some sources (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biang_biang_noodles), although it would appear not to be part of the "official" or "standard Mandarin. I would imagine this might be the same sort of thing with the ruo syllable.

[Lu]

Doesn't seem to be official Mandarin. Or consider diang, also in some list, but not a word.