奧 (ou3 | ao4) : abstruse; profound

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奧

ou3

ao4

[1] [adj] abstruse; profound; difficult to understand
[2] [n] [archaic] innermost part of a house

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Stroke count: 13

Level: 2

Radical: 大 (#37)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

奧 / 奥

This word has been viewed 1 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 7th Dec 2013 14:31

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奧運 ou3 wan6 ao4 yun4 = the Olympics

深奧 sam1 ou3 shen1 ao4 = abstruse; deep; difficult to understand; profound

奧地利 ou3 dei6 lei6 ao4 di4 li4 = Austria

新奧爾良 san1 ou3 ji5 loeng4 xin1 ao4 er3 liang2 = New Orleans

奧斯卡金像獎 ou3 si1 kaa1 gam1 zoeng6 zoeng2 ao4 si1 ka3 jin1 xiang4 jiang3 = the Academy Awards™; the Oscars™

奧祕 ou3 bei3 ao4 mi4 = profound, deep, a mystery; mysterious

奧妙 ou3 miu6 ao4 miao4 = marvelous, mysterious

奧秘 ou3 bei3 ao4 mi4 = profound, deep, a mystery; mysterious

北京奧運 bak1 ging1 ou3 wan6 bei3 jing1 ao4 yun4 = Beijing 2008 olympic games

奧運會 ou3 wan6 wui6*2 ao4 yun4 hui4 = the olympic games; the olympics
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Decimal representation of this word: 奧
Unicode code for this character: U+5967 (off-site link)

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