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猱

náo

Character

What 猱 means

1. literarya kind of gibbon
2. musicwide vibrato (technique for playing the guqin {古琴|gǔ qín}) (cf. {吟|yín}, rapid vibrato)

Sounds the same

Read náo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 挠to scratch; to thwart; to yield
• 桡(literary) to disturb; (literary) to weaken
• 呶clamor; (onomatopoeia) "look!"
• 铙big cymbals
• 蛲parasitic worm; human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
• 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

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