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挪

nuó

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

挪 (nuó) means "to shift; to move". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 挪 means

1. to shift
2. to move

Example sentences

• 我挪不动它。
  I can't move this.
• 我喜欢挪威语言。
  Wǒ xǐhuan Nuówēi yǔyán.
  I love the Norwegian language!
• 玛丽亚在教我挪威语。
  Maria teaches me Norwegian.
• 把椅子挪一挪靠近桌子。
  Bǎ yǐzi nuó yī nuó kàojìn zhuōzi.
  Move the chair nearer to the desk.
• 挪威位于北欧，是个高度发展的国家。
  Nuówēi wèiyú Běi ōu, shì ge gāodù fāzhǎn de guójiā.
  Norway, located in Northern Europe, is a highly developed country.

Words starting with 挪

• 挪威Nuó wēiNorway
• 挪动nuó dòngto move; to shift
• 挪用nuó yòngto shift (funds); to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use…
• 挪开nuó kāito move (sth) aside; to step aside; to move over (when sitting on a bench)
• 挪亚Nuó yàNoah
• 挪借nuó jièto borrow money for a short time
• 挪窝儿nuó wō r(dialect) to move (after being some time in the same place); to move (house)
• 挪亚方舟Nuó yà fāng zhōuNoah's ark

Words containing 挪

• 腾挪téng nuóto move; to shift; to move out of the way
• 闪转腾挪shǎn zhuǎn téng nuóto move nimbly about, dodging and weaving (martial arts)
• 树挪死，人挪活shù nuó sǐ , rén nuó huólit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom)…

Characters that look like 挪

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

• 娜nà(phonetic na); used esp. in female names such as Anna 安娜
• 押yāto mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody
• 绑bǎngto tie; bind or fasten together; to kidnap
• 卸xièto unload; to remove; to detach; to get rid of
• 桦huà(botany) birch (genus Betula)
• 梆bāngwatchman's rattle

Sounds the same

Read nuó, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 那(archaic) many; beautiful; how
• 娜elegant; graceful
• 傩to exorcise demons

Where 挪 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read nuó correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.