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努
nǔ
1. to exert
2. to strive
Very Common • Top 5% ✏️ 7 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

努
nǔ
to exert, to strive, to make an effort; to pout
HSK 3 7 丶

Compound Words (20)

努克
Nǔkè
Nuuk, capital of Greenland
努嘴
nǔzuǐ
to pout
努出
nǔchū
to extend
努力
nǔlì
great effort
HSK 3
哈努卡
Hānǔkǎ
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar)
奇努克
qínǔkè
Chinook (helicopter)
科托努
Kētuōnǔ
Cotonou (city in Benin)
努嘴儿
nǔzuǐr
erhua variant of [[努嘴<nǔzuǐ>]]
贝努力
Bèinǔlì
Bernoulli (Swiss mathematical family, including Johann (1667-1748) and Daniel (1700-1782))
支努干
zhīnǔgān
Chinook (helicopter)
努比亚
Nǔbǐyà
Nubia
阿伊努
Āyīnǔ
Ainu (ethnic group of Japan's north and Russia's east)
努劲儿
nǔjìnr
to extend
努美阿
Nǔměiā
Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia
史努比
Shǐnǔbǐ
Snoopy (comic strip pet dog)
努尔哈赤
Nǔěrhāchì
Nurhaci (1559-1626), founder and first Khan of the Manchu Later Jin dynasty [[後金|后金]] (from 1616)
西哈努克
Xīhānǔkè
(King) Sihanouk (of Cambodia)
加大努力
jiādànǔlì
to try harder
努力以赴
nǔlìyǐfù
to use one's best efforts to do sth (idiom)
共同努力
gòngtóngnǔlì
to work together

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
3
Character Frequency Rank
1,080
Word Frequency Rank
4,180 of 84,292