| náo | to scratch |
| 挠 | to scratch to thwart to yield |
| 挠人清梦 | disturb one's dream |
| 挠头 | tricky problematic difficult |
| 挠度 | flexivity; deflection; flexure; deflexion; hogging; bending; bending deflection |
| 挠性 | flexibility; flexibleness |
| 挠曲 | to bend flexing deflection |
| 挠率 | the torsion (of a space curve) |
| 挠痒 | to scratch an itch |
| 挠秧 | weed the rice fields and loosen the soil around the seedings |
| 挠裂 | split due to repeated folding flex crack |
| 挠败 | defeated routed crushed |
| 挠钩 | iron hook at the end a long pole |