努
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to exert; to strive
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 力 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 努
- Common rank
- #2,011
- Unicode
- U+52AA
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Formation & memory
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Words with 努
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拜科努尔航天发射基地 | Baikonur Cosmodrome | |
| 加大努力 | to try harder; to redouble one's efforts | |
| 亚努科维奇 | Viktor Feyedov Yanukovych (1950-) Ukrainian politician | |
| 西哈努克 | (King) Sihanouk (of Cambodia) | |
| 努纳武特 | Nunavut territory, Canada | |
| 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲 | if you are lazy in your prime, you'll be sorry in your old age | |
| 哈努卡节 | Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur fr… | |
| 努库阿洛法 | Nuku'alofa (capital of Tonga) | |
| 瓦努阿图 | Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean | |
| 努嘴儿 | erhua variant of 努嘴[nu3 zui3] | |
| 努美阿 | Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia | |
| 努比亚 | Nubia | |
| 拜科努尔 | Baikonur (Russian space launch site in Kazakhstan) | |
| 努尔哈赤 | Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金[Hou4 Jin… | |
| 奇努克 | Chinook (helicopter) | |
| 因努伊特 | Inuit | |
| 哈努卡 | Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur fr… | |
| 科托努 | Cotonou (city in Benin) | |
| 阿伊努 | Ainu (ethnic group of Japan's north and Russia's east) | |
| 贝努力 | Bernoulli (Swiss mathematical family, including Johann (1667-1748) and Daniel (1700-1782)) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 奴 — compare how they read.