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Open the tool →榆木脑壳 (yú mù nǎo ké) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “describes a person who is stubbornly rigid in their thinking, resistant to new ideas, and often slow to understand; a blockhead or a thick-headed person”.
榆木脑壳 is pronounced yú mù nǎo ké in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 榆木脑壳 means “elm wood head”. It is used to mean “describes a person who is stubbornly rigid in their thinking, resistant to new ideas, and often slow to understand; a blockhead or a thick-headed person”.
比喻思想顽固。同“榆木脑袋”。