奴 — Chinese character
奴
nú
slave, servant
- Pinyin
- nú
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 女 又
- Formation
- ideographic — A woman 女 standing by her master's right hand 又; 女 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 奴 as a kanji
Common words with 奴
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奴隶 (奴隸) | nú lì | slave |
| 奴役 | nú yì | to enslave |
| 奴隶制 (奴隸制) | nú lì zhì | slavery |
| 奴才 | nú cai | slave; fig. flunkey |
| 农奴 (農奴) | nóng nú | serf |
| 奴隶主 (奴隸主) | nú lì zhǔ | slave owner |
| 奴仆 (奴僕) | nú pú | servant |
| 黑奴 | hēi nú | black slave |
| 性奴 | xìng nú | sex slave |
| 奴隶制度 (奴隸制度) | nú lì zhì dù | slavery |
| 奴隶社会 (奴隸社會) | nú lì shè huì | slave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社會|封建社会 in Marxist theory) |
| 性奴隶 (性奴隸) | xìng nú lì | sex slave |
English words written with 奴
奴 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1
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.