訥

See also: 讷

Translingual

Han character

訥 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜口人月 (YROB), four-corner 0462₇, composition ⿰訁内)

1. slow of speech
2. mumble
3. stammer

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1150, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35274
• Dae Jaweon: page 1617, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3946, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8A25

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Chinese

trad.		訥
simp.		讷

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nè, nà (ne⁴, na⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄜˋ, ㄋㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): neot⁶ / nat⁶ / naap⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): nah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nè
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nè
    • Wade–Giles: nê⁴
    • Yale: nè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: neh
    • Palladius: нэ (nɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɤ⁵¹/
      
  • (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: neot⁶ / nat⁶ / naap⁶
    • Yale: neuht / naht / naahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: noet⁹ / nat⁹ / naap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nêd⁶ / ned⁶ / nab⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɵt̚²/, /nɐt̚²/, /naːp̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nah
    • Tâi-lô: nah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: naq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /nãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /nãʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /nãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /nãʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /nãʔ³²/

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• Middle Chinese: nwot

Rime
Character	訥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	内骨切
Baxter	nwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nuət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/nuot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/nuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nwət̚/
Li Rong	/nuət̚/
Wang Li	/nuət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/nuət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	neot6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*nuːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	訥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nè
Middle Chinese	‹ nwot ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁut/
English	slow of speech
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	訥
Reading #	1/1
No.	9404
Phonetic component	內
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*nuːd/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 訥

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Usage notes

• Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian ((deprecated template usage) 《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciation nà.

References

• “訥”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

訥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: のち (nochi)
• Kan-on: どつ (dotsu)
• Kan’yō-on: とつ (totsu)
• Kun: どもる (domoru, 訥る)

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Korean

Hanja

訥 • (nul) (hangeul 눌, revised nul, McCune–Reischauer nul, Yale nwul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 訥 (nột, dốt, nói, nốt, nuốt)

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