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náo​tóu

to scratch one's head

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
挠头 撓頭 náo//tóu
to scratch one's head
To scratch one's head with one's hand, especially when feeling puzzled or frustrated.
problematic
Difficult to tackle or solve; tricky; vexing.
disheveled hair
Metaphorical for messy or tangled hair

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.300 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.21 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)