拏

Translingual

Han character

拏 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女水手 (VEQ), four-corner 4750₂, composition ⿱奴手)

Derived characters

• 𠸎, 𭒌, 𡰀, 𢜲, 𣸏, 𭢱, 𤸻

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 425, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11954
• Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1847, character 7
• Unihan data for U+62CF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		拏

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rnaː) : phonetic 奴 (OC *naː) + semantic 手.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ná (na²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naa⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ná
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ná
    • Wade–Giles: na²
    • Yale: ná
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: na
    • Palladius: на (na)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: naa⁴
    • Yale: nàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: na⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: nrae

Rime
Character	拏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	女加切
Baxter	nrae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/na/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳaɨ/
Li Rong	/na/
Wang Li	/na/
Bernard Karlgren	/na/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ná
Expected Cantonese Reflex	naa4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*rnaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	拏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ná
Middle Chinese	‹ nræ ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁra/
English	handle (v.)
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	拏
Reading #	1/1
No.	9591
Phonetic component	女
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	拏
Old Chinese	/*rnaː/
Notes	今作拿

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 拏

1. to connect
2. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 拿.
   1. to take with hand; to grasp
   2. to capture

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Japanese

Kanji

拏

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): だ (da), な (na)
• Kun: ひく (hiku)

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Korean

Hanja

拏 • (na) (hangeul 나, revised na, McCune–Reischauer na, Yale na)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 拏 (nả, nã)

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