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Chinese symbol for “eeg”

脑波
nǎo bō
Traditional: 腦波
brain wave; EEG

The closest CC-CEDICT match for eeg is 脑波 (nǎo bō), defined as: brain wave; EEG.

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Characters and stroke order

脑 nǎo
brain
radical 130 ⾁ · 10 strokes
波 bō
waves, ripples, breakers; undulations
radical 85 ⽔ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 脑波.

WordPinyinMeaning
电脑 (電腦)diàn nǎocomputer; 台 (tái)
脑袋 (腦袋)nǎo daihead; skull
大脑 (大腦)dà nǎobrain; cerebrum
头脑 (頭腦)tóu nǎobrains; mind
脑子 (腦子)nǎo zibrains; mind
首脑 (首腦)shǒu nǎohead (of state); summit (meeting)
波动 (波動)bō dòngto undulate; to fluctuate
波音bō yīnmordent (music)

See also: Japanese symbol for “eeg”.

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.