撓

Simplified: 挠

On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1.

náo ㄋㄠˊ

    • to scratch
    • to thwart
    • to yield

Other words read náo

In the same tone

  • 橈 náo disturb
  • 呶 náo clamor
  • 猱 náo kind of gibbon
  • 鐃 náo big cymbals
  • 蟯 náo parasitic worm

All 9 words read náo

nao with other tones

  • 鬧 nào noisy
  • 腦 nǎo brain
  • 惱 nǎo get angry
  • 淖 nào slush
  • 孬 nāo contracted form of 不好 bùhǎo

All 18 words read nao in any tone

The stroke order and parts of 撓

    部首 radical
    扌 a form of 手
    笔画 strokes
    15, with 12 after the 部首
    结构 structure
    左右结构
    偏旁 parts
    扌堯
    形旁 meaning
    扌
    声旁 sound
    堯
    Practise writing 撓

    Trace 撓, then write it from memory. Each stage is passed five times.

    Words with 撓

    Starting with 撓

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    Ending with 撓

    All 6 words ending with 撓

    Containing 撓

    • 抓耳撓腮 zhuāěrnáosāi tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc)

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