to exert

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
奴 sound component

  Sound component

  

slave

also serves as a meaning component.

力 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

power

Definitions

 

to exert, strive, make an effort; to pout; to exert; to strive

Most common words with 努
Freq.
Word
Meaning

努力

great effort

to exert

史努比

Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)

努尔哈赤

Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty 後金|后金 (from 1616)

西哈努克

(King) Sihanouk (of Cambodia)

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 49.6716% of movies

840th most common character in movies

1081st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+52AA


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