nǎo
brain
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 𡿺 represents the sound.
Components
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 |
Sources
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