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脖
bó
1. neck
Common • Top 11% ✏️ 11 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

脖
bó
neck
HSK 5 11 丶

Compound Words (13)

围脖
wéibó
muffler
脖子
bózi
neck
HSK 5
脖领
bólǐng
shirt collar
勒脖子
lēibózi
to throttle
卡脖子
qiǎbózi
to strangle (literally or figuratively)
手脖子
shǒubózi
wrist (dialect)
抹脖子
mǒbózi
to slit one's own throat
牛脖子
niúbózi
(coll.) bullheaded
窝脖儿
wōbór
to suffer a snub
红脖子
hóngbózi
redneck (mildly disparaging term for poor white Americans, sim. hillbilly)
绕脖子
ràobózi
tricky
脖颈儿
bógěngr
back of the neck
脸红脖子粗
liǎnhóngbózicū
red in the face

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
5
Character Frequency Rank
2,174
Word Frequency Rank
9,324 of 84,292

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