| 撓 | [ naó ] to scratch, to thwart, to yield |
| 撓敗 | [ naó baì ] defeated, routed, crushed |
| 撓曲 | [ naó qū ] to bend, flexing, deflection |
| 撓率 | [ naó lǜ ] the torsion (of a space curve) |
| 撓癢癢 | [ naó yǎng yang ] to tickle |
| 撓裂 | [ naó liè ] split due to repeated folding, flex crack |
| 撓鉤 | [ naó goū ] iron hook at the end a long pole |
| 撓頭 | [ naó toú ] tricky, problematic, difficult, to scratch one's head (in puzzlement) |
| ⇒ 不屈不撓 | [ bù qū bù naó ] unyielding, indomitable |
| ⇒ 屈撓 | [ qū naó ] to surrender, to yield, to flex |
| ⇒ 干撓 | [ gān naó ] variant of 干擾|干扰[gan1 rao3], to interfere |
| ⇒ 抓撓 | [ zhuā nao ] to scratch, to mess about with, to quarrel, to scramble to do, sb or sth that one can rely on |
| ⇒ 抓耳撓腮 | [ zhuā ěr naó saī ] to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom) |
| ⇒ 癢癢撓 | [ yǎng yang naó ] backscratcher (made from bamboo etc) |
| ⇒ 百折不撓 | [ baǐ zhé bù naó ] to keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom), to be undaunted by repeated setbacks, to be indomitable |
| ⇒ 阻撓 | [ zǔ naó ] to thwart, to obstruct (sth) |