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努
nǔ HSK2

to exert

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 奴 represents the sound.

Components

奴
奴 Sound component
nú slave
力
力 Meaning component
lì, li power

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangnaːʔ
Unicodenǒ

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
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