奴

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Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 奴

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 奴
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
奴-oracle.svg 奴-bronze.svg 奴-bigseal.svg 奴-seal.svg

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 女 ‎(“woman”) + 又 ‎(“hand”) – a woman with hands at the back (bronze inscriptions).

The oracle bone script forms are pictographic (象形), showing a woman with hands crossed at the back, as opposed to 女 (OC *naʔ, *nas) which depicts a woman clasping her hands in front of the body.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 奴
Mandarin Beijing /nu³⁵/
Harbin /mu²⁴/
Tianjin /nu⁴⁵/
Jinan /mu⁴²/
Qingdao /nu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /nu⁴²/
Xi'an /nou²⁴/
Xining /nv̩²⁴/
Yinchuan /nu⁵³/
Lanzhou /lu⁵³/
Ürümqi /mu⁵¹/
Wuhan /nəu²¹³/
Chengdu /nu³¹/
Guiyang /nu²¹/
Kunming /nu³¹/
Nanjing /lu²⁴/
Hefei /lu⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /nəu¹¹/
Pingyao /nəu¹³/
Hohhot /nəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /nu²³/
Suzhou /nəu³¹/
Hangzhou /no²¹³/
Wenzhou /nɤu³¹/
Hui Shexian /lu⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ləu⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ləu¹³/
Xiangtan /nəɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /lu⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /nu¹¹/
Taoyuan /mu¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nou²¹/
Nanning /nu²¹/
Hong Kong /nou²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lɔ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /nu⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /nu³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /nõu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /nu³¹/
/nɔu³¹/
Rime
Character 奴
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 乃都切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nuo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nuo/
Shao
Rongfen		 /no/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /nɔ/
Li
Rong		 /no/
Wang
Li		 /nu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /nuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奴
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nu ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nˤa/
English 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 奴
Reading # 1/1
No. 9600
Phonetic
component		 女
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 奴
Old
Chinese		 /*naː/

Definitions[edit]

奴

  1. slave; servant
  2. (polite) I
  3. (derogatory) a person associated with a particular identity or trait
  4. to enslave

Synonyms[edit]

  • (I):
Dialectal synonyms of 我 (“I”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Classical 吾、我、私
Mandarin Beijing 我
Jinan 我、俺
Xi'an 我
Wuhan 我
Chengdu 我
Yangzhou 我
Hefei 我
Cantonese Guangzhou 我
Hong Kong 我
Taishan 我
Yangjiang 我
Gan Nanchang 我
Hakka Meixian 𠊎
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 𠊎
Liudui (S. Sixian) 𠊎
Hsinchu (Hailu) 𠊎
Dongshi (Dabu) 𠊎
Taiwanese Raoping 𠊎
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 𠊎
Jin Taiyuan 我
Min Bei Jian'ou 我
Min Dong Fuzhou 我、奴
Min Nan Xiamen 我
Taipei 我
Chaozhou 我
Wu Shanghai 我、吾、阿拉
Suzhou 我、奴
Wenzhou 我
Xiang Changsha 我
Shuangfeng 我、卬

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 奴

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
奴

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

奴 (nô, no, nó, nọ)

  1. (colloquial) he, she, it

Usage notes[edit]

  • Chữ Nôm.
  • This is the common form of this character. The regular form is 伮.
  • The term is de facto used to refer to any animal (including the human) in the third person, in a disrespectful manner. The use of the term to translate the English it, or to refer to an inanimate object, is rather artificial, and mostly found in awkward (but common) translation of other languages.

References[edit]

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