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Chinese symbol for “imaginative”

脑洞大开
nǎo dòng dà kāi
Traditional: 腦洞大開
imaginative; to have one's mind buzzing with ideas

The closest CC-CEDICT match for imaginative is 脑洞大开 (nǎo dòng dà kāi), defined as: imaginative; to have one's mind buzzing with ideas.

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Characters and stroke order

脑 nǎo
brain
radical 130 ⾁ · 10 strokes
洞 dòng
cave, grotto, hole, ravine
radical 85 ⽔ · 9 strokes
大 dà
big, great, vast, high, deep
radical 37 ⼤ · 3 strokes
开 kāi
to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
radical 55 ⼶ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 脑洞大开.

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)
漏洞lòu dòngleak; hole
洞穴dòng xuécave; cavern
大学 (大學)dà xuéuniversity; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
开始 (開始)kāi shǐto begin; to start; beginning; start

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.