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奴

nú

HSK 6 Character

What 奴 means

1. slave

Example sentences

• 别当守财奴！
  Don't be a penny-pincher.
• 他是个奴隶。
  He is a slave.
• 我是个奴隶。
  I'm a slave.
• 我是你的奴隶。
  I am your slave.
• 我是一个奴隶。
  I'm a slave.
• 我是一个农奴。
  I am a serf.

Words starting with 奴

• 奴隶nú lìslave
• 奴才nú caislave; fig. flunkey
• 奴役nú yìto enslave
• 奴婢nú bìslave servant
• 奴仆nú púservant
• 奴家nú jiā(old) your servant (humble self-reference by young female)
• 奴隶主nú lì zhǔslave owner
• 奴隶制nú lì zhìslavery
• 奴性nú xìngservility; doormat mentality
• 奴化nú huàto enslave; to subjugate
• 奴工nú gōngslave labor; slave worker
• 奴儿干Nú ér gānpart of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty
• 奴儿干都司Nú ér gān dū sīthe Ming dynasty provincial headquarters in the Heilongjiang and Vladivostok area
• 奴隶制度nú lì zhì dùslavery
• 奴隶社会nú lì shè huìslave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社会 in Marxist theory)
• 奴颜婢膝nú yán bì xīservile and bending the knee (idiom); fawning; bending and scraping to curry favor

Words containing 奴

• 匈奴Xiōng núXiongnu, a people of the Eastern Steppe who created an empire that flourished around the…
• 农奴nóng núserf
• 亡国奴wáng guó núslave of a foreign conqueror
• 家奴jiā núdomestic slave; slave servant
• 冷奴lěng núsilken tofu served cold with various toppings (loanword from Japanese "hiyayakko")
• 卡奴kǎ núa slave to one's credit card; sb who is unable to repay their credit card borrowings
• 孩奴hái nú"a slave to one's children", hard-working parents who would do everything to ensure their…
• 性奴xìng núsex slave
• 房奴fáng núa slave to one's mortgage
• 白奴bái núwhite slave; (neologism that peaked in the 2000s–2010s) white-collar slave…
• 证奴zhèng nú"a slave to certificates", sb who does one's utmost to obtain as many certificates as…
• 车奴chē núcar slave, sb forced to sacrifice quality of life to buy or maintain a car
• 丁加奴Dīng jiā núformer transliteration of Terengganu, Malaysia, replaced by 登嘉楼
• 史奴比Shǐ nú bǐSnoopy (comic strip pet dog)
• 哈奴曼Hā nú mànHanuman, a monkey God in the Indian epic Ramayana
• 喀奴特Kā nú tèKnuth or Canute (name)
• 守财奴shǒu cái númiser; scrooge
• 火奴鲁鲁Huǒ nú lǔ lǔHonolulu, capital of Hawaii; also called 檀香山
• 狂奴故态kuáng nú gù tàito be set in one's ways (idiom)
• 美利奴羊měi lì nú yángmerino (breed of sheep)
• 瓜拉丁加奴Guā lā Dīng jiā núKuala Terengganu, capital of Terengganu state, Malaysia
• 农奴解放日Nóng nú Jiě fàng rìSerf Liberation Day (PRC)
• 黑奴吁天录Hēi nú yù tiān lùUncle Tom's Cabin, translated and adapted by Lin Shu 林纾
• 猫奴māo núcat owner (neologism c. 2013, jocular)

Characters that look like 奴

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

• 权quánauthority; power; right
• 如rúas; as if; such as
• 她tāshe
• 妇fùwoman
• 仅jǐnbarely; only; merely
• 红hóngred; popular; revolutionary

Sounds the same

Read nú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 驽(literary) inferior horse
• 孥child; offspring
• 笯(literary) birdcage; (used in place names)