那

See also: 哪

Character	那
Unicode name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90A3
Code point	U+90A3
Unicode block	CJK Unified Ideographs
← 邢 [U+90A2] [U+90A4] 邤 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 冄 (“fur”) + semantic 阝 (“city”)

Originally the name of a city; later borrowed for a distal demonstrative.

Han character

那 (radical 163 邑+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸手弓中 (SQNL), four-corner 1752₇, composition 冄⻏)

References

• KangXi: page 1268, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39305
• Dae Jaweon: page 1767, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3760, character 4
• Unihan data for U+90A3

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		那

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nà, nèi (na⁴, nei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄚˋ, ㄋㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naa⁵, aa⁶, naa⁶, no¹, no⁴, no⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): ná

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: nà
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˋ
    • Wade-Giles: na⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nah
    • IPA ^(key): /na̠⁵¹/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: nèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: nei⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ney
    • IPA ^(key): /neɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: naa⁵, aa⁶, naa⁶, no¹, no⁴, no⁵
    • Yale: náh, ah, nah, nō, nòh, nóh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naa⁵, aa⁶, naa⁶, no¹, no⁴, no⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /nɑː¹³/, /ɑː²²/, /nɑː²²/, /nɔː⁵⁵/, /nɔː²¹/, /nɔː¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ná
    • Tâi-lô: ná
    • IPA (Taipei): /na⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /na⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (那, reconstructed)
Character (那), Pronunciation 1/3
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 歌 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 諾何切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/nɑ/	/nɑ/	/nɑ/	/nɑ/	/na/	/nɑ/	/nɑ/
Character (那), Pronunciation 2/3
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 歌 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 奴可切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/nɑX/	/nɑX/	/nɑX/	/nɑX/	/naX/	/nɑX/	/nɑX/
Character (那), Pronunciation 3/3
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 歌 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 奴箇切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/nɑH/	/nɑH/	/nɑH/	/nɑH/	/naH/	/nɑH/	/nɑH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (那, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
那								nuó								‹ na ›								/*nˤar/								ample
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
那					10766					冉					歌					1					那					/*naːl/					說文冄聲
那					10769					冉					歌					1					橠					/*naːlʔ/
那					10770					冉					歌					1					奈					/*naːls/

Pronoun

那

1. (Beginning Mandarin) that, those

   你为什么特别挑了那一个呢？ [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Nǐ wéishénme tèbié tiāo le nà yī gè ne? [Pinyin]

   Why did you choose that one in particular?

   那人是誰？ [MSC, trad.]

   那人是谁？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nà rén shì shéi? [Pinyin]

   Who is that person?

   那是什麼？ [MSC, trad.]

   那是什么？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nà shì shénme? [Pinyin]

   What's that?

   • Dàshuǐ Guòhòu (After the Flood)

     那年我將近十嵗，住在四川成都郊區的百花橋。 [MSC, trad.]

     那年我将近十嵗，住在四川成都郊区的百花桥。 [MSC, simp.]

     Nà nián wǒ jiāngjìn shí suì, zhù zài Sìchuān Chéngdōu jiāoqū de Bǎihuāqiáo. [Pinyin]

     That year, I was about ten years old, living in Sichuan Province in a suburb of Chengdu city called Hundred Flowers

Synonyms

• 這／这 ("this, these")

See also

• (Cantonese) 嗰

Conjunction

那

1. so; that

   used after 咋, 咋就

2. then; in that case

   那我呢？ [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Nà wǒ ne? [Pinyin]

   (Then) what about me?

   你不喜歡這份工作？那你怎麼不辭掉呢？ [MSC, trad.]

   你不喜欢这份工作？那你怎么不辞掉呢？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ bù xǐhuān zhè fèn gōngzuò? Nà nǐ zěnme bù cídiào ne? [Pinyin]

   You don' t like your job ? In that case why don' t you leave ?

   嗯，我明白了，那我最好也打扮一下。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   En, wǒ míngbái le, nà wǒ zuìhǎo yě dǎbàn yī xià. [Pinyin]

   Oh, I see. I've better dress up then.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: nǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˇ
    • Wade-Giles: na³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: naa
    • IPA ^(key): /na̠²¹⁴/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: něi
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄟˇ
    • Wade-Giles: nei³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: neei
    • IPA ^(key): /neɪ̯²¹⁴/

Pronoun

那

1. which (variant of 哪)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: Nā
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄚ
    • Wade-Giles: na¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nha
    • IPA ^(key): /na̠⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: Nuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade-Giles: nuo²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nuo
    • IPA ^(key): /nu̯ɔ³⁵/

Proper noun

那

1. A surname​. Na, Nuo

Pronunciation

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: nuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade-Giles: nuo²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nuo
    • IPA ^(key): /nu̯ɔ³⁵/

Hanzi

1. (archaic) beautiful
2. (archaic) how
3. (archaic) many
4. (archaic) variant of 挪

References

• "那" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-03-17.
• "Jukuu" (in Mandarin/English), URL accessed on 2014-03-17.

Compounds

• 檀那
• 禪那, 禅那
• 無那, 无那
• 支那 (Zhīnà)

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Japanese

Kanji

那

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. what

Readings

• On: だ (da), な (na)
• Kun: なんぞ (nanzo), なに (nani),いかん (ikan), やす (yasu), とも (tomo),

Compounds

• 与那原 (よなばる, yonabaru)

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Korean

Hanja

那 (na) (hangeul 나, revised na, McCune-Reischauer na, Yale na)

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Vietnamese

Han character

那 (na, ná, nả, nà)

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