拗
· ·niù
(bound form) intractable; contrary; disobedient
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,023 U+62D7
How 拗 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 幼 (phonetic, yòu)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 幼
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 幼 (yòu) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 幼 sound component | yòu | infant, young child; immature |
| 窈 | yǎo | obscure, secluded; quiet, refined |
| 坳 | ào | cavity, depression, hollow; depressed; undulating |
| 呦 | yōu | the sound of a deer bleating |
| 黝 | yǒu | black |
Words containing 拗
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拗不过 | niù bu guò | can't persuade; unable to make (sb) change their mind; unable to resist (sb) |
| 拗口令 | ào kǒu lìng | tongue twister |
| 三拗汤 | sān ào tāng | san'ao decoction (TCM) |
| 拗口 | ào kǒu | hard to pronounce; awkward-sounding |
| 拗断 | ǎo duàn | (dialect) to break (by twisting, bending, snapping etc) |
| 硬拗 | yìng ào | (Tw) (coll.) to defend an untenable position with ridiculous arguments (from Taiwanese, Ta… |
| 执拗 | zhí niù | stubborn; willful; pigheaded; Taiwan pr. [zhi2ao4] |
| 违拗 | wéi ào | to disobey; to defy; to deliberately go against (a rule, a convention, sb's wishes etc) |