諾

See also: 诺

Translingual

Han character

諾 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口廿大口 (YRTKR), four-corner 0466₄, composition ⿰訁若)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1173, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35687
• Dae Jaweon: page 1638, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3984, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8AFE

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Chinese

trad.		諾
simp.		诺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 諾
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
若	*nja, *njaʔ, *njaɡ
婼	*nja, *nje, *n̥ʰaɡ
惹	*njaʔ, *njaɡ
諾	*naːɡ
蠚	*hnaːɡ, *n̥ʰaɡ
逽	*naɡ
蹃	*naɡ, *rnaːɡ
箬	*njaɡ
楉	*njaɡ
鄀	*njaɡ

Etymology

Cognate with 若 (OC *njaɡ, “like this; such; if”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nuò (nuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nok⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): nok
• Northern Min (KCR): nŏ̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lio̍k / lo̍k / jia̍k / hio̍h

  (Teochew, Peng'im): nab⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nuò
    • Wade–Giles: no⁴
    • Yale: nwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nuoh
    • Palladius: но (no)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nok⁶
    • Yale: nohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔːk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: nok
    • Hakka Romanization System: nog`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: nog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /nok̚²/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: nŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lio̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lio̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liok
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɔk̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lok
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /lɔk̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: jia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jiak
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ziak̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hio̍h
    • Tâi-lô: hio̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hioih
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hioʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hioʔ¹²¹/

Note:

• lio̍k/lo̍k/jia̍k - literary;
• hio̍h - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: nab⁸
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: na̍p
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nap̚⁴/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 諾
Mandarin	Beijing	/nuo⁵¹/
	Harbin	/nuo²¹³/
	Tianjin	/nɤ⁵³/ /nuo⁵³/
	Jinan	/nuə²¹/
	Qingdao	/nuə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/nuo⁵³/
	Xi'an	/nuo⁵³/
	Xining	/ȵyu²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/nuə¹³/
	Lanzhou	/luə⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/nuɤ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/nuo³⁵/
	Chengdu	/no¹³/
	Guiyang	/no⁴²/ /no²¹³/
	Kunming	/no³¹/
	Nanjing	/loʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/luɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/nuaʔ²/
	Pingyao	/nʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/naʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/noʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/noʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/noʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/no²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/nɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/lo²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/no²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/nok̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/nok̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/nɔk̚³/
	Nanning	/nɔk̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/nɔk̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/lɔk̚⁵/, /liɔk̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/nouʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/nɔ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/nap̚⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/nɔk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nak

Rime
Character	諾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	鐸 (103)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	奴各切
Baxter	nak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/nɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/nɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nak̚/
Li Rong	/nɑk̚/
Wang Li	/nɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/nɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nuò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*naːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	諾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nuò
Middle Chinese	‹ nak ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁak/
English	agree, say yes
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	諾
Reading #	1/1
No.	10934
Phonetic component	若
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	諾
Old Chinese	/*naːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 諾

1. to promise
2. to assent; to approve
3. yeah

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Japanese

Kanji

諾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. agreement, consent, assent

Readings

• Go-on: なく (naku)
• Kan-on: だく (daku, Jōyō)
• Kun: うべなう (ubenau, 諾う)

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Korean

Hanja

諾 • (nak, rak>nak) (hangeul 낙, 락>낙, revised nak, rak>nak, McCune–Reischauer nak, rak>nak, Yale nak, lak>nak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 諾 (nặc)

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