IDENTITY
奶nǎimilk; grandmother
HSK 1Top 880
CORE MEANING
milk; grandmother
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.milkHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 女woman radical (nǚ)
- strokes
- 5
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰女乃
- woman
- gives the sound nǎi
USAGE
Common words
牛奶niúnǎimilk
奶奶nǎinaigrandma
酸奶suānnǎiyogurt
Graded examples
奶奶做的饭很好吃。Nǎinai zuò de fàn hěn hǎochī.HSK2
Grandma’s cooking is delicious.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 乃
LEARNING
Memory aid
A woman (女) nursing a child — milk. (Nǎi also means grandma.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #880
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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