乃

See also ㄋ, 及, 廴, and 廼

Translingual

Etymology

From ancient 𠄎; Ideogram (指事) – pregnant woman (swollen breasts and stomach); compare 孕.

Han character

乃 (radical 4 丿+1, 2 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹尸 (NHS), four-corner 1722₇)

1. then
2. really, indeed
3. as it turned out, after all

   • Example: 乃懼，復造善脈者診之。 - Chapter 23 of Volume 2 of Pu Songling's 聊齋志異 (In Classical Chinese)

4. namely
5. you, your (pre-classical)

Derived characters

• 秀 孕

Descendants

• の
• ノ
• ㄋ

References

• KangXi: page 81, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 113
• Dae Jaweon: page 165, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 31, character 5
• Unihan data for U+4E43

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Cantonese

Hanzi

乃 (Yale naai5)

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Japanese

Kanji

乃 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: だい (dai), あい (ai), ない (nai)
• Kun: すなわち (sunawachi), の (no)

See also

• 之
• の

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Korean

Hanja

乃
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 내 (revised: nae, McCune-Reischauer: nae)

• Name (hangeul): 이에 (revised: ie, McCune-Reischauer: ie)

References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 乃

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Mandarin

Hanzi

乃 (pinyin nǎi (nai3), Wade-Giles nai³)

1. be
2. just

References

• 2005, 新編字典 (in Mandarin/English), 吉林大學出版社, ISBN 7560124291:

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Min Nan

Hanzi

乃 (POJ nái)

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Vietnamese

Han character

乃 (nãi, nải, náy, nảy, nấy, nãy, nới)