孥

Translingual

Han character

孥 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女水弓木 (VEND), four-corner 4740₇, composition ⿱奴子)

1. one's children

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 279, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6967
• Dae Jaweon: page 548, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1015, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5B65

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Chinese

trad.		孥
simp. #		孥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
拿	*rnaː
拏	*rnaː
詉	*rnaː
蒘	*rnaː, *na
笯	*rnaː, *naː, *naːs
挐	*rnaː, *na
絮	*rnaːs, *nas, *snas, *nas
呶	*rnaːw
怓	*rnaːw
帑	*n̥ʰaːŋʔ, *naː
奴	*naː
砮	*naː, *naːʔ
駑	*naː
孥	*naː
努	*naːʔ
弩	*naːʔ
怒	*naːʔ, *naːs
袽	*na
帤	*na
女	*naʔ, *nas
籹	*naʔ
恕	*hnjas
如	*nja, *njas
茹	*nja, *njaʔ, *njas
洳	*nja, *njas
鴽	*nja
蕠	*nja
汝	*njaʔ
肗	*njaʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nú (nu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nou⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nú
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nú
    • Wade–Giles: nu²
    • Yale: nú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nu
    • Palladius: ну (nu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nou⁴
    • Yale: nòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nou̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lô͘
    • Tâi-lô: lôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: nu

Rime
Character	孥
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
Baxter	nu
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nou4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*naː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	孥
Reading #	1/1
No.	9604
Phonetic component	女
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	奴
Old Chinese	/*naː/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

孥

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ど (do), ぬ (nu)
• Kun: つまこ (tsumako)

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Korean

Hanja

孥 • (no) (hangeul 노, revised no, McCune–Reischauer no)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 孥 (nua)

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