懦 — Chinese character
懦
nuò
weak, timid, cowardly
- Pinyin
- nuò
- Radical
- 61 ⼼ (Heart)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 忄 需
- Formation
- pictophonetic — heart; meaning component 忄; sound component 需
- Japanese
- 懦 as a kanji
Common words with 懦
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 懦弱 | nuò ruò | cowardly; weak |
| 懦夫 | nuò fū | coward |
| 怯懦 | qiè nuò | timid; cowardly; chicken-hearted |
| 愚懦 | yú nuò | ignorant and timid |
English words written with 懦
懦 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2
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.