な

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Stroke order

Character	な
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER NA
Codepoint	U+306A

Japanese

Etymology 1

The short form of nare.

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

Derived terms

• 汝 (nare)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /na/

Syllable

な (Hepburn romanization na)

1. 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”).

Related terms

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

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]

Etymology 3

Noun

な (romaji na)

1. 名: name

Etymology 4

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.

Etymology 5

A shortened form of なさい (nasai).

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.

Usage notes

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

  食べな (tabena); eat!

Synonyms

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

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: