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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- ao4
- English meanings
- proud, arrogant, to despise, unyielding, to defy
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Left–right structure
Left–right arrangement: left 亻; right 敖.
Meaning & sound clues
亻 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “person”.
敖 is identified as the sound component (áo). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 傲.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
sunken
profound; mysterious
profound; mysterious
to boil
soar; hover
lined jacket
Example sentences
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Related words
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- 傲慢
- 骄傲
- 高傲