奴才 núcai servant Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents núcai servant · lackey 奴 nú noun slave (bound form) slave; servant; a person who lacks personal freedom and is forced to serve others才 cái type of person (bound form) a person of a certain, often negative, type or character, as in 奴才 núcai or 庸才 yōngcáinúcai [servant's self-address] 奴 nú [self-address] (archaic) a humble way of referring to oneself, used by both men and women in ancient times and later mainly by young women才 cái type of person (bound form) a person of a certain, often negative, type or character, as in 奴才 núcai or 庸才 yōngcáinúcai good-for-nothing 奴 nú [contemptuous person suffix] (bound form) a suffix used to form a contemptuous name for someone with a specific negative trait, such as 守财奴 shǒucáinú才 cái type of person (bound form) a person of a certain, often negative, type or character, as in 奴才 núcai or 庸才 yōngcái
