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桡

náo

Character Traditional 橈

What 桡 means

1. literaryto disturb
2. literaryto weaken

Other readings

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

• ráoradius (anatomy); bone of the forearm

Example sentences

• 将血压带 (或止血带) 套在手臂上，逐渐增加压力，直到前臂发绀，桡动脉搏动几乎消失。
  A blood-pressure band, or tourniquet, is placed about the arm, and the pressure increased until the forearm becomes cyanosed and the radial pulse is almost obliterated.

Words starting with 桡

• 桡骨ráo gǔradius (anatomy); bone of the forearm

Words containing 桡

• 阻桡zǔ náovariant of 阻挠

Characters built on 尧

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

• 烧shāoto burn; to set on fire; to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc); to braise
• 绕ràoto wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around
• 饶ráorich; abundant; exuberant
• 挠náoto scratch; to thwart; to yield
• 娆ráograceful
• 铙náobig cymbals
• 蛲náoparasitic worm; human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
• 荛ráofuel; grass

Sounds the same

Read náo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 挠to scratch; to thwart; to yield
• 呶clamor; (onomatopoeia) "look!"
• 铙big cymbals
• 蛲parasitic worm; human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
• 猱(literary) a kind of gibbon; (music) wide vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴
• 硇used in 硇砂
• 夒a kind of gibbon (old variant of 猱
• 𢙐used in 懊𢙐ào náo
• 譊wrangling, contention, to dispute
• 峱name of a mountain