挠 (撓) náo
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náo
verb
to scratch
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Unihan '撓') -
náo
verb
to bother; to irritate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '撓') -
náo
verb
to submit
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '撓')
Contained in
- 怒而挠之(怒而撓之) if [your enemy] is is prone to anger, irritate him
- 抓挠(抓撓) to scratch; to mess about with; to quarrel; to scramble to do; somebody or something that one can rely on
- 百折不挠(百折不撓) keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks; be indomitable
- 抓耳挠腮(抓耳撓腮) to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc)
- 挠头(撓頭) tricky; problematic; difficult; to scratch one's head (in puzzlement)
- 挠败(撓敗) defeated; routed; crushed
- 挠痒痒(撓癢癢) to tickle
- 挠率(撓率) the torsion (of a space curve)
- 挠曲(撓曲) to bend; flexing; deflection
- 阻挠(阻撓) to thwart; to obstruct
- 挠钩(撓鉤) iron hook at the end a long pole
- 痒痒挠(癢癢撓) backscratcher (made from bamboo etc)
- 屈挠(屈撓) to surrender; to yield; to flex
- 挠裂(撓裂) split due to repeated folding; flex crack
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷四十七 Scroll 47 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10
- 卷三十一 周臣傳第十九: 王朴 鄭仁誨 扈載 Volume 31 Later Zhou Biographies 11: Wang Pu, Zheng Renhui, Hu Zai New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 6
- 卷二十二 魏一 Chapter 22: Wei I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 6
- 卷八十五 列傳第七十三: 節義 Volume 85 Biographies 73: Exemplars of the Loyal and Righteous History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 5
- 卷一百二十八 周書19: 列傳八 王朴 楊凝式 薛仁謙 蕭愿 盧損 王仁裕 裴羽 段希堯 司徒詡 邊蔚 王敏 Volume 128 Book of Later Zhou 30: Biographies 8 - Wang Pu, Yang Ningshi, Xue Fenqian, Xiao Yuan, Lu Sun, Wang Renyu, Pei Yu, Duan Xiyao, Si Tubi, Bian Yu, Wang Min Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 5
- 卷七十 鄭孔荀列傳 Volume 70: Biographies of Zheng, Kong, Xun Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 4
- 卷二百七十五 列傳第三十四 劉福 安守忠 孔守正 譚延美 元達 常思德 尹繼倫 薛超 丁罕 趙瑫 郭密 傅思讓 李斌 田仁朗 劉謙 Volume 275 Biographies 34: Liu Fu, An Shouzhong, Kong Shouzheng, Tan Yanmei, Yuan Da, Chang Side, Yin Jilun, Xue Chao, Ding Han, Zhao Tao, Guo Mi, Fu Sirang, Li Bin, Tian Renlang, Liu Qian History of Song 宋史 — count: 4
- 卷一百七十二 列傳第一百二十二: 令狐楚 牛僧孺 蕭俛 李石 Volume 172 Biographies 122: Ling Huchu, Niu Sengru, Xiaomian, Li Shi Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 4
- 卷三百〇四 列傳第六十三 周渭 梁鼎 范正辭 劉師道 王濟 方偕 曹穎叔 劉元瑜 楊告 趙及 劉湜 王彬 仲簡 Volume 304 Biographies 63: Zhou Wei, Liang Ding, Fan Zhengci, Liu Shidao, Wang Ji, Fang Xie, Cao Yingshu, Liu YuanYu, Yang Gao, Zhao Ji, Liu Shi, Wang Bin, Zhong Jian History of Song 宋史 — count: 4
- 卷一百八十六 列傳第七十四 韓文 張敷華 楊守隨 許進 雍泰 陳壽 樊瑩 熊繡 潘蕃 胡富 張泰 張鼐 王璟 朱欽 Volume 186 Biographies 74: Han Wen, Zhang Fuhua, Yang Shousui, Xu Jin, Yong Tai, Chen Shou, Fan Ying, Xiong Xiu, Pan Fan, Hu Fu, Zhang Tai, Zhang Nai, Wang Jing, Zhu Qin History of Ming 明史 — count: 4
Collocations
- 挠乱 (撓亂) 撓亂我同盟 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 15
- 挠辞 (撓辭) 終無撓辭 — Exemplary Figures 法言, 卷十 重黎 Chapter 10: Chong and Li — count: 5
- 挠法 (撓法) 撓法活之 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《酷吏列傳》 Biographies of Cruel Officials — count: 5
- 烦挠 (煩撓) 詆文者處煩撓以為慧 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十一 齊俗訓 Chapter 11: Combining Customs — count: 4
- 挠滑 (撓滑) 禍福弗能撓滑 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二 俶真訓 Chapter 2: Starting with the Truth — count: 4
- 数挠 (數撓) 為寬裕者曰勿數撓 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十一 齊俗訓 Chapter 11: Combining Customs — count: 2
- 退挠 (退撓) 使望風退撓邪 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷五十九 列傳第十九 殷淳 張暢 何偃 江智淵 Volume 59 Biographies 19: Yin Chun, Zhang Chang, He Yan, Jiang Zhiyuan — count: 2
- 栋挠 (棟撓) 棟撓 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十二 董卓列傳 Volume 72: Biography of Dong Zhuo — count: 2
- 大挠 (大撓) 大撓造甲子 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十七 志第七 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 7: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Two — count: 2
- 曲挠 (曲撓) 取其不曲撓也 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress — count: 2