(nǔ) - to exert oneself (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
nǔTraditional: 努
Translation
to exert oneself (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the strength radical 力 carries the meaning of effort, and 奴 (nú) supplies the sound, giving the sense of exerting oneself.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 力 (strength radical) + 奴 (nú, phonetic)
Stroke order
努
Examples
。
I will study hard.
。
He works very hard.
，。
As long as you work hard, you will succeed.
。
He pursed his lips.
。
We must keep trying hard.
努 (nǔ) means to exert oneself. It is a bound morpheme and chiefly appears in 努力 (nǔ lì), to work hard.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 努.
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