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喏

nuò

Character

What 喏 means

1. (indicating agreement) yes
2. all right
3. (drawing attention to) look!
4. here!
5. variant of {诺|nuò}

Other readings

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

• rěused in {唱喏|chàng rě}

Example sentences

• 喏，快看快看！那有一道巨大的彩虹！
  Nuò, kuài kàn kuài kàn! Nà yǒu yī dào jùdà de cǎihóng!
  Oh, look, look! There's a big rainbow over there!
• 喏，这是我的秘密。很简单。只有用心才能看到本质的东西。精髓是眼睛看不见的。
  Nuò, zhè shì wǒ de mìmì. hěn jiǎndān. zhǐ yǒuyòng xīn cáinéng kàn dào běnzhì de dōngxi. jīngsuǐ shì yǎnjing kànbujiàn de.
  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Words containing 喏

• 唱喏chàng rě(old) to bow and utter polite phrases; to open the way (for a dignitary etc)

Characters built on 若

These share the phonetic component 若 (ruò), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 诺nuòto consent; to promise; (literary) yes!
• 偌ruòso; such; to such a degree
• 锘nuònobelium (chemistry)
• 箬ruò(bamboo); skin of bamboo

Characters that look like 喏

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

• 唱chàngto sing; to call loudly; to chant
• 唔wúoh (expression of agreement or surprise); (Cantonese) not
• 喽lóu(bound form) subordinates in a gang of bandits
• 喳chāused in 喳喳
• 喵miāo(onomatopoeia) meow; cat's mewing
• 喹kuíused in 喹啉

Sounds the same

Read nuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 诺to consent; to promise; (literary) yes!
• 糯(bound form) glutinous rice; (bound form) (of cereal grain) glutinous
• 懦(bound form) cowardly; faint-hearted
• 锘nobelium (chemistry)
• 搦(literary) to hold (in the hand); to challenge; to provoke
• 㐡old variant of 懦