nǎo

brain

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 𡿺 represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

𡿺 sound,meaning component

𡿺  Sound Meaning component

nǎo

  

brain

Definitions

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nǎo

brain; mind; head; essence

Most common words with 腦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

电脑

computer

brain

脑子

brains

脑袋

head

大脑

brain

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤ[u]ʔ

nawX

nǎo

brain


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 71.3920% of movies

489th most common character in movies

646th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+8166


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