奥

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(bound form) Austria (abbr. for 奧地利|奥地利[Ao4 di4 li4])

(bound form) Olympics (abbr. for 奧林匹克|奥林匹克[Ao4 lin2 pi3 ke4]); obscure; mysterious

roof (宀) + grain (米) + big (大) = something deep and obscure inside

The image is of a large grain store tucked under a roof — its inner recesses hard to see or reach. That sense of a deep, hidden interior is how 奥 came to mean obscure or mysterious.

宀+米+大→奥
大BigSemantic
宀RoofSemantic
米GrainSemantic

这本书的内容很深奥,我看了好几遍才懂。

zhè běn shū de nèi róng hěn shēn ào,wǒ kàn le hǎo jǐ biàn cái dǒng。

The content of this book is very profound; I read it several times before I understood it.

他去北京看了奥运会的开幕式,觉得非常精彩。

tā qù běi jīng kàn le ào yùn huì de kāi mù shì,jué de fēi cháng jīng cǎi。

He went to Beijing to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics and found it very spectacular.

Words with 奥

新奥尔良

xīn ào ěr liáng

New Orleans, Louisiana

奥巴马

ào bā mǎ

Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017

奥里萨邦

ào lǐ sà bāng

Odisha (formerly Orissa), eastern Indian state

奥托

ào tuō

Otto

奥姆真理教

ào mǔ zhēn lǐ jiào

Aum Shinrikyo (or Supreme Truth), the Japanese death cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway

奥斯卡

ào sī kǎ

(film industry) Oscar (Academy Award)

奥特曼

ào tè màn

Ultraman, Japanese science fiction superhero

奥林匹克运动会

ào lín pǐ kè yùn dòng huì

Olympic Games; the Olympics

里奥斯

lǐ ào sī

Ríos (name)

重整奥思定会

zhòng zhěng ào sī dìng huì

Order of Augustinian Recollects, a mendicant Catholic religious order of friars and nuns

阃奥

kǔn ào

innermost room

马可·奥勒留

mǎ kě · ào lēi liú

Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor

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