乃

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.2 See also 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 4.1.1 References 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 References 6 Min Nan 6.1 Hanzi 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

From ancient 𠄎

[edit] 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)

[edit] Descendants

• の
• ノ
• ㄋ

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

乃 (Yale naai5)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

乃

[edit] Readings

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

[edit] See also

• 之
• の

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

乃
Eumhun:

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

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

[edit] References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 乃

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

1. be
2. just

[edit] References

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

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

乃 (POJ nái)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

乃 (nãi, nải, náy, nảy, nấy, nãy, nới)