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See also:
U+513A, 儺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-513A

[U+5139]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+513B]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 9, +19, 21 strokes, cangjie input 人廿人土 (OTOG), four-corner 20214, composition )

  1. rich

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 121, character 42
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1317
  • Dae Jaweon: page 257, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 238, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+513A

Chinese

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trad.
simp.
alternative forms
𠹈
𩙎
𩘾

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character


References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *naːl) : semantic + phonetic (OC *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns).

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-n/t (ill, pain, difficult, evil spirit).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (8)
Final () (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter na
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nɑ/
Pan
Wuyun
/nɑ/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/na/
Li
Rong
/nɑ/
Wang
Li
/nɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/nɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nuó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
no4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nuó nuó nuó
Middle
Chinese
‹ na › ‹ na › ‹ naX ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˁar/ /*nˁar/ /*nˁarʔ/
English expel demons rich, ample, fine, beautiful rich, beautiful

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 4886
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*naːl/

Definitions

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  1. to walk gracefully; to move to the measured steps
  2. Used in 猗儺猗傩 (“beautiful; graceful”).
  3. to expel demons of illness; to exorcise
  4. Nuo ceremony

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. exorcism

Readings

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  • Go-on: (na)
  • Kan-on: (da)
  • Kun: おにやらい (oniyarai, )

Compounds

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Kanji in this term

Hyōgai
on'yomi

Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (na).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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() (na

  1. driving away the gods of disease
    • 1972 [1688], Kaibara Chiken, Nihon saijiki [Japan almanac]‎[1], page 140:
      ()(きょ)(たん)(せつ)をば、その()()をあらそはんも(くち)おしければやみぬ。されば()(えき)をおいはらふことなり。
      Kakaru kyotan no setsu o ba, sono zehi o arasowan mo kuchioshikereba yaminu. Sareba na wa eki o oiharau koto nari.
      It would be a pity to try to prove such a false exaggerated theory right or wrong, so I'll stop. So na rituals are to drive out the epidemic.

Korean

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Hanja

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(eum (na))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: na

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