腦

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

• 𫇂, 𥀮

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

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

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rnuq. Cognate with Burmese ဦးနှောက် (u:hnauk), Nuosu ꀑꆊ (o not, “brain”), Jingpho nu' (“brain”), Drung unu (“brain; mind”), Japhug tɯrnoʁ, S'gaw Karen ခိၣ်နူာ် (khoh̀noọ, “brain”).

腦

1. (anatomy) brain (Classifier: 個／个 m c)
2. head
3. brains; mind

   唔使用腦諗／唔使用脑谂 [Cantonese]  ―  m⁴ sai² jung⁶ nou⁵ nam²   ―  no need to use one's brains

4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to smash one's head
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) core; central part
6. (in compounds) brain-like object or substance

   豆腐腦／豆腐脑  ―  dòufunǎo  ―  tofu pudding

   電腦／电脑  ―  diànnǎo  ―  computer

7. (in compounds) essence

   樟腦／樟脑  ―  zhāngnǎo  ―  camphor

   龍腦／龙脑  ―  lóngnǎo  ―  borneol

   薄荷腦／薄荷脑  ―  bóhénǎo  ―  menthol

8. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 電腦／电脑 (din⁶ nou⁵, “computer”). (Classifier: 部 c)

腦

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(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 脳)

1. Kyūjitai form of 脳

• Go-on: のう (nō)^{←なう (nau, historical)}
• Kan-on: どう (dō)^{←だう (dau, historical)}
• Kun: あたま (atama, 腦)、なずき (nazuki, 腦)^{←なづき (naduki, 腦, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 腦 (MC nawX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

腦

Wikisource

腦 (eumhun 머릿골 뇌 (meoritgol noe))

1. hanja form^? of 뇌 (“brain”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 漬く (naduku, “to be immersed in water (or other liquid)”).

腦 (naduki₁) (kana なづき)

1. the brain
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 68:
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     髄腦　上須年、下奈豆技。

     髄 and 腦: the former sune (“shin”), the latter naduki₁ (“brain”).

• Japanese: 脳, 髄 (nazuki)

腦: Hán Nôm readings: não

腦

1. chữ Hán form of não (“brain”).