Dictionary › 脑袋

脑袋

nǎo dai

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 腦袋 Measure word 颗、个

脑袋 (nǎo dai) means "head". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 脑袋 means

1. head
2. skull
3. brains
4. mental capability

The characters in 脑袋

• 脑nǎobrain; mind; head
• 袋dàipouch; bag; sack

Example sentences

• 我有个黄鱼脑袋。
  I have a memory like a goldfish.
• 你的脑袋坏了吗？
  Is your skull broken?
• 你的脑袋充满了新点子。
  Nǐ de nǎodài chōngmǎn le xīn diǎnzi.
  Your head was bursting with new ideas.
• 她的脑袋充满了新点子。
  Tā de nǎodài chōngmǎn le xīn diǎnzi.
  Her head was bursting with new ideas.
• 为什么你的脑袋那么聪明呢？
  Wèishénme nǐ de nǎodai nàme cōngming ne?
  Why are you so smart?
• 为什幺你的脑袋那幺聪明呢？
  Why are you so smart?

Words starting with 脑袋

• 脑袋开花nǎo dài kāi huāto blow one's brain out

Words containing 脑袋

• 屁股决定脑袋pì gu jué dìng nǎo dailit. the butt governs the head (idiom); fig. where one stands depends on where one sits…
• 榆木脑袋yú mù nǎo dai(colloquial) thickhead; (colloquial) thick skull (i.e. the brain of a thickhead)

Where 脑袋 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Body Parts & Medical (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read nǎo dai correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.