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奶奶

nǎi nai

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 2 2-character word Measure word 位

奶奶 (nǎi nai) means "(informal) grandma (paternal grandmother)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 奶奶 means

1. (informal) grandma (paternal grandmother)
2. (respectful) mistress of the house
3. colloquialboobies
4. breasts

The characters in 奶奶

• 奶nǎibreast; milk; to breastfeed
• 奶nǎibreast; milk; to breastfeed

Example sentences

• 这是我奶奶的假牙。
  These are my grandmother's artificial teeth.
• 我记不清奶奶的脸。
  I don't remember my grandmother's face accurately.
• 我奶奶失去了记忆。
  My grandmother lost her memory.
• 这是我奶奶的食谱。
  This recipe is my grandmother's.
• 把小孩寄托给奶奶养。
  Bǎ xiǎohái jìtuō gěi nǎinai yǎng.
  Let Grandma take care of the kid.
• 她一直带奶奶去散步。
  She always takes her grandmother for a walk.

Words starting with 奶奶

• 奶奶的nǎi nai dedamn it!; blast it!
• 奶奶灰nǎi nai huīgranny gray (hair color)

Words containing 奶奶

• 老奶奶lǎo nǎi nai(colloquial) father's father's mother; paternal great-grandmother…
• 姑奶奶gū nǎi naipaternal great-aunt (father's father's sister)…
• 少奶奶shào nǎi naiyoung lady of the house; wife of the young master
• 求爷爷告奶奶qiú yé ye gào nǎi nailit. to beg grandpa and call on grandma (idiom); fig. to go about begging for help
• 姨奶奶yí nǎi naifather's mother's sister (coll.); great aunt

Where 奶奶 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Extended Family (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
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