脑
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brain; mind; head; essence
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 肉 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 腦
- Common rank
- #364
- Unicode
- U+8111
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
brain · Heisig RSH #1176
flesh + Fagin
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 脑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 电脑 | computer; CL:臺|台[tai2] | |
| 头儿脑儿 | leading figure; bigwig | |
| 家用电脑 | home computer | |
| 脑门子 | forehead (dialect) | |
| 脑中风 | cerebral stroke | |
| 一古脑儿 | variant of 一股腦兒|一股脑儿[yi1 gu3 nao3 r5] | |
| 电脑语言 | programming language; computer language | |
| 脑子进水 | to have lost one's mind; crazy; soft in the head | |
| 平板电脑 | tablet computer; CL:台[tai2] | |
| 脑子 | brains; mind; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 台式电脑 | desktop computer | |
| 大脑 | brain; cerebrum | |
| 头脑 | brains; mind; skull; (fig.) gist (of a matter); leader; boss | |
| 无脑 | brainless | |
| 脑儿 | brains (as food) | |
| 手提电脑 | portable computer | |
| 小脑 | cerebellum (part of the brain) | |
| 脑神经 | cranial nerves | |
| 脑海 | the mind; the brain | |
| 脑机接口 | brain-computer interface |