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凹

āo

HSK 6 Character

What 凹 means

1. concave; depressed; sunken; indented; female (connector etc)

Other readings

凹 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• wāvariant of {洼|wā}; (used in names)

Words starting with 凹

• 凹凸āo tūconcave or convex; bumps and holes; uneven (surface)
• 凹陷āo xiànto cave in; hollow; sunken; depressed
• 凹凸不平āo tū bù píng(idiom) uneven (surface); bumpy (road)
• 凹入āo rùrecessed; concave
• 凹坑āo kēngconcave depression; crater
• 凹岸āo ànconcave bank
• 凹度āo dùconcavity
• 凹槽āo cáorecess; notch; groove
• 凹洞āo dòngcavity; pit
• 凹版āo bǎnintaglio printing plate (or a print made with it)
• 凹痕āo héndent; indentation; notch
• 凹纹āo wéndie (printing, metalwork etc)
• 凹线āo xiàngroove
• 凹进āo jìnconcave; recessed; dented
• 凹镜āo jìngconcave mirror
• 凹雕āo diāoto engrave; to carve into
• 凹凸形āo tū xíngcrenelated; corrugated
• 凹凸性āo tū xìng(math) concavity
• 凹朴皮āo pò píbark of tulip tree (TCM); Cortex Liriodendri
• 凹透镜āo tòu jìngconcave lens
• 凹造型āo zào xíng(colloquial) to strike a pose
• 凹面镜āo miàn jìngconcave mirror
• 凹凸印刷āo tū yìn shuāembossing; die stamping
• 凹凸有致āo tū yǒu zhìcurvaceous

Words containing 凹

• 贾平凹Jiǎ Píng wāJia Pingwa (1952-), Chinese novelist
• 山凹shān āocol; valley
• 中央凹zhōng yāng āofovea centralis (depression in the macula retina, most sensitive optic region)
• 胃小凹wèi xiǎo āo(physiology) gastric pits
• 微凹黄檀wēi āo huáng táncocobolo (Dalbergia retusa)

Characters that look like 凹

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 因yīncause; reason; because
• 网wǎngnet; web; network; to net; to catch with a net
• 回huíto go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer…
• 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady
• 田tiánfield; farm
• 冈gāngridge; mound

Sounds the same

Read āo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 熬to simmer; to boil slowly
• 爊variant of 熬