納

See also 纳

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糸 (“silk, thin thread”) + phonetic 内. Modern nà, from Middle Chinese nəp, from Old Chinese *nuːb. Original sense: "to patch old cloths", "to make enter > to accept, to receive; to contribute". The latter sense is the causative of 入 (rù, from MC ȵip, from OC *njub, "to enter"), the glyph which is part of 內, the traditional form of 内 ("to be inside"). Also cognate with 内 (nèi, from MC nuoi, from OC *nuːbs, "to be in, inside").

Han character

納 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火人月 (VFOB), four-corner 2492₇, composition ⿰糸内)

1. admit, take, receive, accept

References

• KangXi: page 916, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27264
• Dae Jaweon: page 1345, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3373, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7D0D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

納 (Yale naap6)

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Japanese

Kanji

納 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō), のう (nō), な (na)
• Kun: おさめる (osameru), いれる (ireru)

Proper noun

納 (hiragana おさむ, romaji Osamu)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

納 (hangeul 납, revised nap, McCune-Reischauer nap, Yale nap)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

納 (pinyin nà (na4), Wade-Giles na⁴)

• Archaic Chinese
• karlgren: *nâp
• Style: Traditional Chinese
  • Simplified equivalent: 纳

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Vietnamese

Han character

納 (nạp, nấp, nập, nép, nớp, núp, nượp, nuốt, nầm, nóp, nốp, nộp)