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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Syllable 2 Japanese 2.1 Etymology 1 2.1.1 Pronoun 2.1.1.1 Derived terms 2.2 Etymology 2 2.2.1 Hiragana character 2.2.1.1 Related terms 2.3 Etymology 3 2.3.1 Noun 2.4 Etymology 4 2.4.1 Particle 2.5 Etymology 5 2.5.1 Particle 2.5.1.1 Usage notes 2.5.1.2 Synonyms 2.6 References

[edit] Translingual

The Hiragana script
あぁ	かゕが	さざ	ただ	な	はばぱ	ま	やゃ	ら	わゎ	ん
いぃ	きぎ	しじ	ちぢ	に	ひびぴ	み		り	ゐ
うぅゔ	くぐ	すず	つっづ	ぬ	ふぶぷ	む	ゆゅ	る
えぇ	けゖげ	せぜ	てで	ね	へべぺ	め		れ	ゑ
おぉ	こご	そぞ	とど	の	ほぼぽ	も	よょ	ろ	を
Additional symbols ーゝゞゟ
な Unicode: U+306AKatakana: ナHepburn romanization: naNihon-shiki romanization: naPolivanov cyrillization: наJapanese braille: ⠅

[edit] Syllable

な

1. The hiragana syllable at な行あ段 (row NA, section A) in a gojūon table.

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

The short form of nare.

[edit] Pronoun

な (kanji 汝, romaji na)

1. second person personal pronoun; you
   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3353)

   阿良多麻能 伎倍乃波也之尓 奈乎多弖天 由伎可都麻思自 移乎佐伎太多尼

   • c. 759: Man'yōshū (book 14, poem #3468)

   夜麻杼里乃 乎呂能波都乎尓 可賀美可家 刀奈布倍美許曽 奈尓与曽利鶏米

   • c. 920: Azuma Asobi Uta (#2)

   衣 和賀世古加 介左乃古止天者 奈奈川乎乃 也川乎乃古止乎 之良部 太留古止也 奈乎加介也末乃 可川乃介也 乎々々々

[edit] Derived terms

• 汝 (nare)

[edit] Etymology 2

Derived in the Heian period from writing the man'yōgana kanji 奈 in the cursive sōsho style.

[edit] Hiragana character

な (romaji na)

1. The /na/ syllable.
2. The twenty-first character in the gojūon ordering of hiragana. The previous character is と and the next character is に. The equivalent katakana character is ナ.

[edit] Related terms

• For a list of words starting with な (na) see: Special:Allpages/な

[edit] Etymology 3

[edit] Noun

な (romaji na)

1. 名: name

[edit] Etymology 4

[edit] Particle

な (romaji na)

1. (masculine, emphatic) indicates emotion or emphasis; added at the end of a sentence
2. the copula particle used after quasi-adjectives to make them function as adjectives.

   変な人。

   へんなひと。

   Hen na hito.

   A strange person.

3. (added to the dictionary form verb) used to indicate prohibition; don't

   行くな！

   いくな！

   Iku na!

   Don't go!

   ウィキペディアを引用するな。

   ウィキペディアをいんようするな。

   Uikipedia o in'yō suru na.

   Don't quote Wikipedia.

[edit] Etymology 5

A shortened form of なさい (nasai).

[edit] Particle

な (romaji na)

1. an imperative or command

   あっちへ行きな、ぼうや。

   あっちへいきな、ぼうや。

   Acchi e ikina, bōya.

   Out of the way, boy!

   座りなよ。

   すわり'。

   Suwarina yo.

   Have a seat.

[edit] Usage notes

• A casual way of issuing commands; attached to the stem of verbs:

  食べな (tabena); eat!

[edit] Synonyms

• 下さい (kudasai)
• 頂戴 (chōdai)
• なさい (nasai)

[edit] References

• Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki [c. 759] (2002). Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man'yōshū 3 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240003-4.
• Tsuchihashi, Yutaka; Jin'ichi Konishi (1957). Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Kodai Kayōshū (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-060003-6.