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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		奴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nú (nu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nou⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: nú
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: nu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nu
    • IPA ^(key): /nu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: nou⁴
    • Yale: nòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nou⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /nou̯²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (奴, reconstructed)
Character (奴), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 乃都切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/nuo/	/nuo/	/no/	/nuo/	/nɔ/	/nu/	/no/

Old Chinese pronunciation (奴, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
奴								nú								‹ nu ›								/*nˤa/								slave
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
奴					9600					女					魚					0					奴					/*naː/

Definitions

1. servant
2. I
3. enslave

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Japanese

Kanji

奴

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

a thing, an object; (derogatory, familiar) a person

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

奴 (nô, no, nó, nọ)

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