挠 — Chinese character
挠
náo
to yield; to scratch, to disturb
- Pinyin
- náo
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 扌 尧
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 尧
- Traditional
- 撓
Common words with 挠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阻挠 (阻撓) | zǔ náo | to thwart; to obstruct (sth) |
| 不屈不挠 (不屈不撓) | bù qū bù náo | unyielding; indomitable |
| 百折不挠 (百折不撓) | bǎi zhé bù náo | to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom); to be undaunted by repeated setbacks |
| 挠头 (撓頭) | náo tóu | tricky; problematic |
| 挠痒痒 (撓癢癢) | náo yǎng yang | to tickle |
| 抓挠 (抓撓) | zhuā nao | to scratch; to mess about with |
| 挠痒 (撓癢) | náo yǎng | to scratch an itch |
| 抓耳挠腮 (抓耳撓腮) | zhuā ěr náo sāi | to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom) |
| 挠曲 (撓曲) | náo qū | to bend; flexing |
| 屈挠 (屈撓) | qū náo | to surrender; to yield |
| 干挠 (干撓) | gān náo | variant of 干扰 (gān rǎo), to interfere |
| 挠败 (撓敗) | náo bài | defeated; routed |
English words written with 挠
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.