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奶奶

nǎi nai

HSK 1 · word 257 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

wèi

Example sentence

我记不清奶奶的脸。

wǒ jì bù qīng nǎi nai de liǎn

I don't remember my grandmother's face accurately.

Characters in 奶奶

grandmother, doubled — and specifically the *paternal* one. Chinese kinship marks which side of the family a relative comes from, so a maternal grandmother is 外婆 or 姥姥.

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