儺

See also: 傩

儺 U+513A, 儺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-513A ← 儹 [U+5139] CJK Unified Ideographs 儻 → [U+513B]

Translingual

Han character

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

1. rich

References

• KangXi: 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

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Chinese

trad.		儺
simp.		傩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儺
Small seal script s05699 Transcribed ancient scripts L32393 L08510
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).

Characters in the same phonetic series (暵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
儺	*naːl
臡	*naːl, *neːl, *njeːl
嘆	*n̥ʰaːn, *n̥ʰaːns
灘	*n̥ʰaːn, *naːns, *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
擹	*n̥ʰaːn
攤	*n̥ʰaːn, *naːnʔ, *naːns
癱	*n̥ʰaːn
歎	*n̥ʰaːns
難	*n̥ʰaːn, *naːns
暵	*hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
熯	*hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns, *njanʔ
漢	*hnaːns
戁	*rnaːnʔ, *njanʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nuó (nuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): no⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): nô͘ / lô

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: nuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade–Giles: no2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nuo
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nuó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nwɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: no⁴
    • Yale: nòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: no⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: no⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔː²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nô͘
    • Tâi-lô: nôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: noo
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /nɔ̃¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /nɔ̃²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô
    • Tâi-lô: lô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: looi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lo²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /nɑ/

Rime
Character	儺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	諾何切
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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤar/, /*nˤarʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*naːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	儺	儺	儺
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	儺
Reading #	1/1
No.	4886
Phonetic component	暵
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	那
Old Chinese	/*naːl/

Definitions

儺

1. ^† to walk gracefully; to move to the measured steps

   • 巧笑之瑳、佩玉之儺。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     巧笑之瑳、佩玉之傩。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Qiǎoxiào zhī cuō, pèiyù zhī nuó. [Pinyin]

     How shine the white teeth through the artful smiles!
     How the girdle gems move to the measured steps!

2. Nuo ceremony

Compounds

• 儺戲／傩戏 (nuóxì)
• 儺祓／傩祓
• 儺神／傩神 (nuóshén)
• 儺禮／傩礼
• 儺禳／傩禳
• 儺聲／傩声
• 儺舞／傩舞

• 儺逐／傩逐
• 儺鼓／傩鼓
• 和儺／和傩
• 大儺／大傩
• 猗儺／猗傩
• 玉儺／玉傩

• 行儺／行傩
• 觀儺／观傩
• 贈儺／赠傩
• 進儺／进傩
• 鄉儺／乡傩
• 驅儺／驱傩

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Japanese

Kanji

儺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. exorcism

Readings

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

Compounds

Compounds

• 追儺(ついな) (tsuina), 追儺(なやらい) (nayarai)
• 儺火(なび) (nabi)
• 儺豆(なまめ) (namame)
• 追儺(なやら)ふ (nayarau)

Kanji in this term
儺
な Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 儺 (na).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Goon
• IPA^(key): [na̠]

Noun

儺(な) • (na) 

1. driving away the gods of disease
   • 1972 [1688], Kaibara Chiken, Nihon saijiki [Japan almanac]‎^[1], page 140:

     かゝ(か)る虚(きょ)誕(たん)の説(せつ)をば、その是(ぜ)非(ひ)をあらそはんも口(くち)おしければやみぬ。されば儺(な)は疫(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.

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Korean

Hanja

儺 (eum 나 (na))

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Vietnamese

Han character

儺: Hán Nôm readings: na

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