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Chinese symbol for “gyrus”

脑回
nǎo huí
Traditional: 腦回
gyrus (neuroanatomy)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for gyrus is 脑回 (nǎo huí), defined as: gyrus (neuroanatomy).

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Characters and stroke order

脑 nǎo
brain
radical 130 ⾁ · 10 strokes
回 huí
to return, to turn around; a time
radical 31 ⼞ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 脑回.

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)
回来 (回來)huí laito return; to come back
回到huí dàoto return to

See also: Japanese symbol for “gyrus”.

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.