Chinese symbol for “baffle”
难倒
nán dǎo
Traditional: 難倒
to baffle; to confound; to stump
The closest CC-CEDICT match for baffle is 难倒 (nán dǎo), defined as: to baffle; to confound; to stump.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “baffle”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 砥 | dǐ | baffle (pier); whetstone |
| 难住 (難住) | nán zhù | to baffle; to stump |
| 迷惑 | mí huo | to puzzle; to confuse |
| 问倒 (問倒) | wèn dǎo | to stump; to baffle |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 难倒.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 困难 (困難) | kùn nan | difficult; challenging |
| 难道 (難道) | nán dào | don't tell me ...; could it be that...? |
| 难以 (難以) | nán yǐ | hard to (predict, imagine etc) |
| 难过 (難過) | nán guò | to feel sad; to feel unwell |
| 难民 (難民) | nàn mín | refugee |
| 灾难 (災難) | zāi nàn | disaster; catastrophe |
| 打倒 | dǎ dǎo | to overthrow; to knock down |
| 倒闭 (倒閉) | dǎo bì | to go bankrupt; to close down |
See also: Japanese symbol for “baffle”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.