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奡

ào

Character

What 奡 means

1. haughty
2. vigorous

Sounds the same

Read ào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 傲proud; arrogant; to despise
• 奥obscure; mysterious
• 澳deep bay; cove; harbor
• 拗(bound form) intractable; contrary; disobedient
• 坳depression; cavity; hollow; Taiwan pr. āo
• 懊to regret
• 骜a noble steed (literary); (of a horse) untamed; (fig.) (of a person) headstrong
• 鏊griddle; tava
• 岙plain in the middle of the mountains; used in place names, esp. in 浙江
• 墺building-plot
• 垇(used in place names); variant of 坳
• 鿫oganesson (chemistry)

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