拗 — Chinese character
拗
ǎo
to pull, to drag; perverse, obstinate; bent, warped
- Pinyin
- ǎo
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 扌 幼
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 幼
- Japanese
- 拗 as a kanji
Common words with 拗
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 执拗 (執拗) | zhí niù | stubborn; willful; pigheaded; Taiwan pr. [zhi2ao4] |
| 拗口 | ào kǒu | hard to pronounce; awkward-sounding |
| 拗不过 (拗不過) | niù bu guò | can't persuade; unable to make (sb) change their mind; unable to resist (sb) |
| 违拗 (違拗) | wéi ào | to disobey; to defy; to deliberately go against (a rule, a convention, sb's wishes etc) |
| 三拗汤 (三拗湯) | sān ào tāng | san'ao decoction (TCM) |
| 拗口令 | ào kǒu lìng | tongue twister |
| 拗断 (拗斷) | ǎo duàn | (dialect) to break (by twisting, bending, snapping etc) |
| 硬拗 | yìng ào | (Tw) (coll.) to defend an untenable position with ridiculous arguments (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ngē-áu]); Taiwan pr. [ying4ao1] |
English words written with 拗
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.