納

See also: 纳

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		納
simp.		纳

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
妠	*nuːms, *nuːb, *rnoːd
內	*nuːbs
笍	*tnobs, *njobs
芮	*njobs
枘	*njobs
汭	*njobs
鈉	*njobs
蜹	*njobs, *lobs, *njod
抐	*nuːns, *nuːd
納	*nuːb
衲	*nuːb
魶	*nuːb, *noːb
軜	*nuːb
蒳	*nuːb
豽	*rnuːd
肭	*rnuːd, *nuːd, *nuɡ
吶	*nod
焫	*njod
訥	*nuːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *nuːb) : semantic 糸 (“silk, thin thread”) + phonetic 内 ().

Etymology

“to make enter > to accept, to receive; to contribute”

Causative of 入 (OC *njub, “to enter”), the glyph which is part of 內 (“to be inside”), also related.

“nano-”

Borrowed from English nano-.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nà (na⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naap⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): na̍p
• Northern Min (KCR): nà
• Eastern Min (BUC): năk
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): la̍p / la̍h

  (Teochew, Peng'im): nab⁸

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁸neq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nà
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nà
    • Wade–Giles: na⁴
    • Yale: nà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nah
    • Palladius: на (na)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: naap⁶
    • Yale: naahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nab⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːp̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: na̍p
    • Hakka Romanization System: nab
    • Hagfa Pinyim: nab⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /nap̚⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: nà
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /na⁴²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: năk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nˡaʔ⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: la̍p
    • Tâi-lô: la̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lap
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /lap̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lap̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lap̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: la̍h
    • Tâi-lô: la̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lah
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /laʔ²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: nab⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: na̍p
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nap̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁸neq
    • MiniDict: neh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵neq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /nəʔ¹²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 納
Mandarin	Beijing	/na⁵¹/
	Harbin	/na²⁴/ 出～ /na⁵³/ ～鞋底兒
	Tianjin	/nɑ⁵³/
	Jinan	/na²¹/ /na²¹³/ ～鞋底兒
	Qingdao	/na⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/na²⁴/
	Xi'an	/na²¹/
	Xining	/na⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/na¹³/
	Lanzhou	/la⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/na²¹³/
	Wuhan	/na²¹³/
	Chengdu	/na³¹/
	Guiyang	/na²¹/
	Kunming	/na̠³¹/
	Nanjing	/lɑʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/lɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/naʔ²/
	Pingyao	/nʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/naʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/naʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/nəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/nɑʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/nø²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/na²²/
	Tunxi	/lɔ¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/la²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/nɒ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/laʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/nap̚⁵/
	Taoyuan	/nɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/nap̚²/
	Nanning	/nap̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/nap̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/lap̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/naʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/na⁴²/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/nap̚⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/nap̚³/ 出～ /nap̚⁵/ ～粹

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• Middle Chinese: nop

Rime
Character	納
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	合 (160)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	奴荅切
Baxter	nop
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nʌp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/nəp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/nɒp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nəp̚/
Li Rong	/nᴀp̚/
Wang Li	/nɒp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/năp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	naap6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤ[u]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*nuːb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	納
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nà
Middle Chinese	‹ nop ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁ[u]p/
English	bring or send in
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	納
Reading #	1/1
No.	9391
Phonetic component	內
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*nuːb/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 納

1. to admit; to receive
2. to accept; to take on
3. to bring into
4. to enjoy; to delight in
5. to pay; to give payment to
6. to sew close stitches
7. (loanword, Mainland China) nano- (SI unit prefix)

Compounds

See also

SI prefix
Last		Next
微 (wēi)	納/奈	皮 (pí)

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Japanese

Kanji

納

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: のう (nō, Jōyō)^{←なふ (nafu, historical)}; のう (nō, Jōyō)^{←のふ (nofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: どう (dō)^{←どふ (dofu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: な (na, Jōyō ^†); なっ (na', Jōyō ^†); なん (nan, Jōyō ^†); とう (tō, Jōyō ^†)^{←たふ (tafu, historical)}
• Kun: おさまる (osamaru, 納まる, Jōyō); おさめる (osameru, 納める, Jōyō); いれる (ireru, 納れる)

Proper noun

納(おさむ) or 納(proper) • (osamu or proper) [[Category:Japanese
|おさむ]]

1. a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

納 • (nap) (hangeul 납, revised nap, McCune–Reischauer nap, Yale nap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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