傲
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proud; arrogant; to despise; unyielding; to defy
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
haughty · Heisig RSH #2087
人 person + 土 soil + 放 release
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 傲
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 心高气傲 | proud and arrogant | |
| 虚心使人进步，骄傲使人落后 | modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong) | |
| 引以为傲 | to be intensely proud of sth (idiom) | |
| 居功自傲 | satisfied with one's accomplishment and arrogant as a result (idiom); resting on one's lau… | |
| 傲视群伦 | outstanding talent (idiom); incomparable artistic merit; accomplishment out of the ordinar… | |
| 傲慢无礼 | (idiom) arrogant; disrespectful | |
| 傲人 | worthy of pride; impressive; enviable | |
| 自傲 | arrogance; proud of sth | |
| 傲气 | air of arrogance; haughtiness | |
| 高傲 | arrogant; haughty; proud | |
| 傲然 | loftily; proudly; unyieldingly | |
| 傲慢与偏见 | Pride and Prejudice, novel by Jane Austen 珍·奧斯汀|珍·奥斯汀[Zhen1 · Ao4 si1 ting1] | |
| 傲慢少礼 | see 傲慢無禮|傲慢无礼[ao4 man4 wu2 li3] | |
| 傲骨 | lofty and unyielding character | |
| 傲立 | to stand proudly | |
| 傲视 | to turn up one's nose; to show disdain for; to regard superciliously | |
| 傲霜斗雪 | see 欺霜傲雪[qi1 shuang1 ao4 xue3] | |
| 斗霜傲雪 | see 欺霜傲雪[qi1 shuang1 ao4 xue3] | |
| 傲慢不逊 | see 傲慢無禮|傲慢无礼[ao4 man4 wu2 li3] | |
| 冷傲 | icily arrogant |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 敖 — compare how they read.