嫩
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young and tender; (of food) tender; lightly cooked; (of color) light; (of a person) inexperienced; unskilled
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 女 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 嫩
- Common rank
- #2,341
- Unicode
- U+5AE9
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
tender · Heisig RSH #2656
女 woman + bundle + taskmaster
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 嫩
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巴尔克嫩德 | Jan Pieter Balkenende (1956-), prime minister of the Netherlands 2002-2010 | |
| 老牛吃嫩草 | lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom); fig. a May-December relationship; a romance wher… | |
| 细皮嫩肉 | soft skin and tender flesh (idiom); smooth-skinned | |
| 嫩江市 | Nenjiang, a county-level city in Heihe City 黑河市[Hei1 he2 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 脸皮嫩 | bashful; shy | |
| 嫩肉粉 | meat tenderizer powder | |
| 帕德嫩神庙 | Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis, Athens (Tw) | |
| 白嫩 | (of skin etc) fair; delicate | |
| 香娇玉嫩 | a beautiful woman | |
| 嫩主 | newbie | |
| 嫩江 | see 嫩江市[Nen4 jiang1 Shi4] | |
| 黎巴嫩 | Lebanon | |
| 装嫩 | to act young; to affect a youthful appearance | |
| 细嫩 | tender | |
| 嫩叶 | tender young leaves | |
| 嫩绿 | tender green; soft green | |
| 嫩苗 | seedling; tender young shoot; sprout | |
| 柔嫩 | tender; delicate (texture) | |
| 娇嫩 | tender and lovely; fragile; delicate | |
| 嫩芽 | tender shoots |