な
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| Stroke order | |||
| Character | な |
|---|---|
| Unicode name | HIRAGANA LETTER NA |
| Codepoint | U+306A |
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[edit] Japanese
[edit] Etymology 1
The short form of nare.
[edit] Pronoun
- second person personal pronoun; you
[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] Pronunciation
- IPA: /na/
[edit] Syllable
な (Hepburn romanization na)
- The hiragana syllable な (na), whose equivalent in katakana is ナ (na). It is the twenty-first syllable of the gojūon order, and its position in gojūon tables is な行あ段 (NA-gyō, A-dan; “row NA, section A”).
[edit] Related terms
- For a list of words starting with な (na) see: Special:Allpages/な
[edit] See also
- (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ [edit]
[edit] Etymology 3
[edit] Noun
な (romaji na)
[edit] Etymology 4
[edit] Particle
な (romaji na)
- (masculine, emphatic) indicates emotion or emphasis; added at the end of a sentence
- the copula particle used after quasi-adjectives to make them function as adjectives.
- (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.
- 行くな!
[edit] Etymology 5
A shortened form of なさい (nasai).
[edit] Particle
な (romaji na)
- an imperative or command
[edit] Usage notes
- A casual way of issuing commands; attached to the stem of verbs:
- 食べな (tabena); eat!
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] References
- 2002 [c. 759], Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man'yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240003-4:
- 1957, Tsuchihashi, Yutaka; Jin'ichi Konishi, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Kodai Kayōshū (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-060003-6: