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
- 挠头(撓頭) tricky; problematic; difficult; to scratch one's head (in puzzlement)
- 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)
- 抓挠(抓撓) to scratch; to mess about with; to quarrel; to scramble to do; somebody or something that one can rely on
- 屈挠(屈撓) to surrender; to yield; to flex
- 挠曲(撓曲) to bend; flexing; deflection
- 阻挠(阻撓) to thwart; to obstruct
- 怒而挠之(怒而撓之) if [your enemy] is is prone to anger, irritate him
- 百折不挠(百折不撓) keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks; be indomitable
- 挠率(撓率) the torsion (of a space curve)
- 挠痒痒(撓癢癢) to tickle
- 痒痒挠(癢癢撓) backscratcher (made from bamboo etc)
- 挠钩(撓鉤) iron hook at the end a long pole
- 挠败(撓敗) defeated; routed; crushed
- 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
- 卷四十九 王充王符仲長統列傳 Volume 49: Biographies of Wang Chong, Wang Fu, Zhongchang Tong Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 4
- 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
- 卷一百三十九 列傳第八十九: 陸贄 Volume 139 Biographies 89: Lu Zhi Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — 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
- 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
- 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
- 挠絮 (撓絮) 以一兩撓絮漬酒中 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十三 周黃徐姜申屠列傳 Volume 53: Biographies of Zhou, Huang, Xu, Jiang, Shentu — 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
- 政挠 (政撓) 政撓其俗 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十 鄭孔荀列傳 Volume 70: Biographies of Zheng, Kong, Xun — count: 2
- 能挠 (能撓) 禍福弗能撓滑 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二 俶真訓 Chapter 2: Starting with the Truth — 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