奴

Translingual

Etymology

From a pictograph of a right hand grasping a woman.

Han character

奴 (radical 38 女+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 女水 (VE), four-corner 4744₀, composition ⿰女又)

1. slave, servant

Derived characters

• 怒 努

Descendants

• ぬ
• ヌ

References

• KangXi: page 254, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6039
• Dae Jaweon: page 517, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1024, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5974

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Cantonese

Hanzi

奴 (Yale nou4)

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Japanese

Kanji

奴 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ど (do), ぬ (nu)
• Kun: やっこ (yakko), やつ (yatsu), め (me)

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Korean

Hanja

奴 (hangeul 노, revised no, McCune-Reischauer no)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

奴 (pinyin hào (hao4), nú (nu2), Wade-Giles hao⁴, nu²)

1. servant
2. I
3. enslave

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Vietnamese

Han character

奴 (nô, no, nó, nọ)