漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
脳: brain, memory
JLPT N211 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
月 carries the meaning · ⺍ and 凶 are drawn in
11 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ノウnou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 脳のうbrain
- 脳髄のうずいbrain
- 脳炎のうえんbrain inflammation
- 脳死のうしbrain death
- 脳裏のうりone's mind
- 脳細胞のうさいぼうbrain cell
- 脳卒中のうそっちゅうstroke, cerebral hemorrhage
- 大脳だいのうcerebrum
- 小脳しょうのうcerebellum
- 頭脳ずのうhead, brains, intellect
- 首脳しゅのうhead, brains
- 洗脳するせんのうするbrainwash
Also read ドウ, のうずる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)匕 + 巛 hair + 囟 head; fontanel
Originally 匘, an ideogrammic compound (會意): 匕 + 巛 (“hair”) + 囟 (“head; fontanel”). 匕 was later replaced with 肉 (“flesh”).
Source: Wiktionary, 腦 (rev. 92917017), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“It looks like the moon, but it's actually muscle! When you see this "moon" on the left side of a character, don't think of the night sky—think of your own body.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
凶
Also built on villain (凶)
Also read ノウ
5 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side脳 brain · 月
vs悩 trouble · 忄In ChineseSimplified 脑 · traditional 腦 · nǎo
Three different forms: Japanese 脳, simplified 脑, traditional 腦.
- Simplified
- 脑 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 腦 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin nǎo most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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