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nào

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nào Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
nào | nao4
English translation
mud, slush

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About nào

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

nào

Contains the radical

shuǐ

Part of speech

Isolated morpheme / 语素 yǔ sù Yǔsù

Learning hint

water

Etymology of nào

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

氵卓

Semantic compound

shuǐ

Phonetic compound

Zhuó

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. shuǐ represents the meaning and Zhuó represents the sound.

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Words with nào

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
nào slush nào
泥淖 ní nào mud泥淖 ní nào
巴彦淖尔市 Bā yàn nào ěr shì Bayan Nur prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia巴彥淖爾市
巴彦淖尔 Bā yàn nào ěr Bayan Nur prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia巴彥淖爾

nào Decomposition & Compounds

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