奴
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slave
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 女 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 奴
- Common rank
- #1,465
- Unicode
- U+5974
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Formation & memory
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Words with 奴
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 西藏百万农奴解放纪念日 | Serf Liberation Day (PRC) | |
| 农奴解放日 | Serf Liberation Day (PRC) | |
| 奴儿干都司 | the Ming dynasty provincial headquarters in the Heilongjiang and Vladivostok area | |
| 瓜拉丁加奴 | Kuala Terengganu, capital of Terengganu state, Malaysia | |
| 奴儿干 | part of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty | |
| 美利奴羊 | merino (breed of sheep) | |
| 阿衣奴 | see 阿伊努[A1 yi1 nu3] | |
| 丁加奴 | former transliteration of Terengganu, Malaysia, replaced by 登嘉樓|登嘉楼[Deng1 jia1 lou2] in 20… | |
| 火奴鲁鲁 | Honolulu, capital of Hawaii; also called 檀香山 | |
| 史奴比 | Snoopy (comic strip pet dog) | |
| 奴家 | (old) your servant (humble self-reference by young female) | |
| 奴性 | servility; doormat mentality | |
| 家奴 | domestic slave; slave servant | |
| 性奴 | sex slave | |
| 白奴 | white slave; (neologism that peaked in the 2000s–2010s) white-collar slave (office worker … | |
| 奴化 | to enslave; to subjugate | |
| 车奴 | car slave, sb forced to sacrifice quality of life to buy or maintain a car | |
| 奴工 | slave labor; slave worker | |
| 黑奴 | black slave | |
| 卡奴 | a slave to one's credit card; sb who is unable to repay their credit card borrowings |
Sound family
These characters use 奴 as their sound component — compare how they read.