HSK 3.0 · LEVEL 1
奶
Milk; breasts; grandmother; to suckle or nurse.
Free Chinese vocabulary flashcard · HSK 1
Why does 奶 look like this?
It combines the 'woman' radical 女 (nǚ) on the left with the phonetic component 乃 (nǎi) on the right. Historically, 乃 represented a nursing breast, so putting them together creates the perfect image for a mother or milk!
