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儺

儺

儺 U+513A, 儺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-513A
← 儹
[U+5139] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 儻 →
[U+513B]
See also: 傩

Translingual

Han character

儺 (radical 9 人+19, 21 strokes, cangjie input 人廿人土 (OTOG), four-corner 20214, composition ⿰亻難)

  1. rich

References

  • KangXi: page 121, character 42
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1317
  • Dae Jaweon: page 257, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 238, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+513A

Chinese

trad. 儺
simp. 傩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儺
Large seal script

L32393

L08510
Small seal script

s05699
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (暵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
儺 *naːl
臡 *naːl, *neːl, *njeːl
嘆 *n̥ʰaːn, *n̥ʰaːns
灘 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns, *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
擹 *n̥ʰaːn
攤 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːnʔ, *naːns
癱 *n̥ʰaːn
歎 *n̥ʰaːns
難 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns
暵 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
熯 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns, *njanʔ
漢 *hnaːns
戁 *rnaːnʔ, *njanʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 儺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 諾何切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /nɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /na/
Li
Rong		 /nɑ/
Wang
Li		 /nɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /nɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nuó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 儺 儺 儺
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nuó nuó nuó
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ na › ‹ na › ‹ naX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nˤar/ /*nˤar/ /*nˤarʔ/
English expel demons rich, ample, fine, beautiful rich, beautiful

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 儺
Reading # 1/1
No. 4886
Phonetic
component		 暵
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 那
Old
Chinese		 /*naːl/

Definitions

儺

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Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

儺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
儺
な
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 儺 ‎(na).

Pronunciation

Noun

儺 ‎(hiragana な, romaji na)

  1. driving away the gods of disease

Korean

Hanja

儺 • ‎(na) (hangeul 나, revised na, McCune-Reischauer na)

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Vietnamese

Han character

儺 (na)

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