腦

See also: 脳 and 脑
腦 U+8166, 腦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8166
← 腥
[U+8165] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 腧 →
[U+8167]

Translingual

Traditional 腦
Shinjitai 脳
Simplified 脑

Han character

腦 (radical 130, 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月女女田 (BVVW), four-corner 72263, composition ⿰⺼𡿺)

References

  • KangXi: page 988, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29681
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1440, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2100, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8166

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (匘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
腦 *nuːʔ, *nuːs
惱 *nuːʔ
瑙 *nuːʔ
匘 *nuːʔ
碯 *nuːʔ
硇 *rnuː
𣳦 *rnuː

Originally 匘, an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 匕 + 巛 (“hair”) + 囟 (“head; fontanel”). 匕 was later replaced with 肉 (“flesh”).

Etymology 1

trad. 腦
simp. 脑
alt. forms 匘

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəw-k.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwan:
    • náu - vernacular;
    • ló - literary.
Rime
Character 腦
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 奴晧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /nɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /nawX/
Li
Rong		 /nɑuX/
Wang
Li		 /nɑuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /nɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nǎo
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 腦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nawX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nˤ[u]ʔ/
English brain

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 腦
Reading # 1/2
No. 9370
Phonetic
component		 匘
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 堖
Old
Chinese		 /*nuːʔ/
Notes 見左傳，說文作匘

Definitions

腦

  1. (anatomy) brain
  2. head
  3. † to smash one's head
  4. † core; central part
  5. brain-like object or substance
    豆腐腦 / 豆腐脑  ―  dòufunǎo  ―  tofu pudding

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad. 腦
simp. 脑

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 腦
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 那到切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /nɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /nawH/
Li
Rong		 /nɑuH/
Wang
Li		 /nɑuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /nɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 腦
Reading # 2/2
No. 9375
Phonetic
component		 匘
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 腝
Old
Chinese		 /*nuːs/

Definitions

腦

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Japanese

Shinjitai

 脳

Kyūjitai

 腦

Kanji

腦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 脳)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja in this term
腦

Noun

腦 • (noe) (hangeul 뇌)

  1. Hanja form? of 뇌 (“brain”).

Vietnamese

Han character

腦 (não)

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