奥
obscure; mysterious
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #572 U+5965
How 奥 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 大 discovering a house 宀 full of rice 米
How to remember it
of great depth · Heisig RSH #2031
a drop of + helmet + 米 rice + St. Bernard dog
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 奥 as their sound component
These characters all use 奥 (ào) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奥 sound component | ào | mysterious, obscure, profound; used in transliterations |
| 澳 | ào | bay, cove, dock, inlet |
| 懊 | ào | vexed; regretful; nervous |
| 噢 | ō | to moan; interjection indicating pain or sadness |
| 燠 | yù | warm; warmth |
Words containing 奥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 克里奥尔语 | kè lǐ ào ěr yǔ | creole language |
| 奥里里亚 | Ào lǐ lǐ yà | Aurelia, a hypothetical planet |
| 奥马尔 | Ào mǎ ěr | Omar (Arabic name) |
| 奥林巴斯 | Ào lín bā sī | Olympus, Japanese manufacturer of cameras and optical instruments |
| 科利奥兰纳斯 | Kē lì ào lán nà sī | Coriolanus, 1607 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚 |
| 奥尔巴尼 | Ào ěr bā ní | Albany, New York |
| 奥地利 | Ào dì lì | Austria |
| 里奥斯 | Lǐ ào sī | Ríos (name) |
| 奥尔德尼岛 | Ào ěr dé ní Dǎo | Alderney (Channel Islands) |
| 奥利安 | Ào lì ān | Orion (constellation, loan word); also written 獵戶座|猎户座 |
| 马里奥 | Mǎ lǐ ào | Mario (name) |
| 奥斯瓦尔德 | Ào sī wǎ ěr dé | Oswald |
| 特奥会 | Tè ào huì | Special Olympics |
| 奥纳西斯 | Ào nà xī sī | Onassis (name); Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975), Greek shipping magnate |
| 奥巴马 | Ào bā mǎ | Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017 |
| 爱奥尼亚海 | Ài ào ní yà Hǎi | Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece |
| 奥斯特洛夫斯基 | Ào sī tè luò fū sī jī | Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer; Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-… |
| 奥利维亚 | Ào lì wéi yà | Olivia (name) |
| 圣安东尼奥 | Shèng ān dōng ní ào | San Antonio, Texas |
| 奥克苏斯河 | Ào kè sū sī Hé | Oxus River; alternative name for Amu Darya 阿姆河[A1 mu3 He2] |