脑
nǎo HSK1

brain

脑 (腦) nǎo
head noun
the physical head or the top part of the body

那个小孩的脑袋圆圆的，看起来非常活泼可爱。

nà​gè xiǎo​hái de nǎo dài yuán​yuán de, kàn qi​lai fēi​cháng huó​po kě'ài.

That child has a round head and looks very lively and cute.

brain noun
the physical organ of the nervous system within the skull

脑是人体的指挥中心。

nǎo shì rén​tǐ de zhǐ​huī zhōng​xīn.

The brain is the command center of the human body.

mind noun
intellectual power, capacity for thought, or memory

这道难题非常费脑，我得休息一下。

zhè dào nán​tí fēi​cháng fèi nǎo, wǒ děi xiū​xi yī​xià.

This problem is very brain-taxing; I need to take a break.

essence noun
an extract or a substance resembling brain tissue or marrow

这种晶体被称为薄荷脑，闻起来很凉。

zhè zhǒng jīng​tǐ bèi chēng​wéi bò​he nǎo, wén qi​lai hěn liáng.

This crystal is called menthol; it smells very cooling.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
646th most common 318.6 per million
Movie subtitles
489th most common 297.5 per million appears in 71% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
54.0 per million appears in 18% of films
Written text
81.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
腦
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+8111

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)