奴

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slave

5 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,465 U+5974

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A woman 女 standing by her master's right hand 又; 女 also provides the pronunciation

components: 女又

slave · Heisig RSH #747

女 woman + crotch

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 奴 as their sound component

These characters all use 奴 (nú) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
奴 sound component	nú	slave, servant
怒	nù	anger, passion, rage
努	nǔ	to exert, to strive, to make an effort; to pout
弩	nǔ	crossbow; an arrow falling, a downward stroke
驽	nú	tired old horse; old, weak
呶	náo	talkative; clamour, hubbub
胬	nǔ	pterygium, surfer's eye
孥	nú	one's children

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
西藏百万农奴解放纪念日	Xī zàng Bǎi wàn Nóng nú Jiě Fàng Jì niàn rì	Serf Liberation Day (PRC)
农奴解放日	Nóng nú Jiě fàng rì	Serf Liberation Day (PRC)
奴儿干都司	Nú ér gān dū sī	the Ming dynasty provincial headquarters in the Heilongjiang and Vladivostok area
瓜拉丁加奴	Guā lā Dīng jiā nú	Kuala Terengganu, capital of Terengganu state, Malaysia
奴儿干	Nú ér gān	part of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty
美利奴羊	měi lì nú yáng	merino (breed of sheep)
阿衣奴	Ā yī nú	see 阿伊努[A1 yi1 nu3]
丁加奴	Dīng jiā nú	former transliteration of Terengganu, Malaysia, replaced by 登嘉樓\|登嘉楼[Deng1 jia1 lou2] in 20…
火奴鲁鲁	Huǒ nú lǔ lǔ	Honolulu, capital of Hawaii; also called 檀香山
史奴比	Shǐ nú bǐ	Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
奴家	nú jiā	(old) your servant (humble self-reference by young female)
奴性	nú xìng	servility; doormat mentality
家奴	jiā nú	domestic slave; slave servant
性奴	xìng nú	sex slave
白奴	bái nú	white slave; (neologism that peaked in the 2000s–2010s) white-collar slave (office worker …
奴化	nú huà	to enslave; to subjugate
车奴	chē nú	car slave, sb forced to sacrifice quality of life to buy or maintain a car
奴工	nú gōng	slave labor; slave worker
黑奴	hēi nú	black slave
卡奴	kǎ nú	a slave to one's credit card; sb who is unable to repay their credit card borrowings