Chinese symbol for “nape”
颈背
jǐng bèi
Traditional: 頸背
nape
The closest CC-CEDICT match for nape is 颈背 (jǐng bèi), defined as: nape.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “nape”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 颈背.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 瓶颈 (瓶頸) | píng jǐng | neck of a bottle; (fig.) bottleneck |
| 颈部 (頸部) | jǐng bù | neck |
| 长颈鹿 (長頸鹿) | cháng jǐng lù | giraffe; 只 (zhī) |
| 宫颈 (宮頸) | gōng jǐng | cervix; the neck of the uterus |
| 颈椎 (頸椎) | jǐng zhuī | cervical vertebra; the seven cervical vertebrae in the neck of humans and most mammals |
| 颈椎病 (頸椎病) | jǐng zhuī bìng | cervical spondylosis |
| 背景 | bèi jǐng | background; backdrop; context; (fig.) powerful backer |
| 背后 (背後) | bèi hòu | behind; at the back |
See also: Japanese symbol for “nape”.
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.