ǎoàoniù

to pull

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

hand

幼 sound component

  Sound component

yòu

  

young, infant

Evolution

拗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

ǎo

to pull, drag, break off, to pluck (a flower); bent, warped; perverse, obstinate

 

ào

to bend in two so as to break; to defy; to disobey; also pr. [ǎo]

 

niù

stubborn; obstinate

() 

ào

variant of [ào]

Most common words with 拗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to defy

执拗

stubborn

拗口

hard to pronounce

违拗

to disobey

拗陷

geological depression

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3629th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+62D7

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“拗,手拉也。从手,幼聲。”


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