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脑 — brain; mind; head

brain; mind; head; essence

Pinyin
nǎo
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 脑: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

脑 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 脑 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 电脑diànnǎocomputerHSK 1
  2. 大脑dànǎobrain; cerebrumHSK 5
  3. 脑袋nǎodaihead; skull; brains; mental capabilityHSK 6
  4. 脑子nǎozibrains; mindHSK 6
  5. 头脑tóunǎobrains; mind; skull; gist; leader; bossHSK 6
  6. 脑海nǎohǎithe mind; the brainHSK 7–9
  7. 伤脑筋shāng nǎojīnto be a real headache; to find sth a real headacheHSK 7–9
  8. 首脑shǒunǎohead; summit; leaderHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.