撓 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

náo HSK7

scratch

挠撓 náo

to scratch verb: To scratch lightly with one's fingers or a tool; to claw or itch.; 为什么我们被挠痒就会发笑？

wèishénme wǒmen bèi náo yǎng jiù huì fā xiào?

Why do we laugh when we are being tickled?

to thwart: To hinder, obstruct, or disturb.

to yield: (bound form) To bend, flinch, or give in; often used in a figurative sense of yielding under pressure.

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铙 náo

Frequency

Character

Written text: 2,794th most common 13.0 per million
Movie subtitles: 2,643rd most common 6.55 per million appears in 4% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 5.31 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text: 8.65 per million

Details

HSK 3.0: Level 7
Simplified: 挠
Strokes: 15
Unicode: U+6493

Sources

Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)