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奈

奈

See also: 柰

Translingual

Han character

奈 (radical 37 大+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大一一火 (KMMF), four-corner 40901, composition ⿱大示)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 251, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5893
  • Dae Jaweon: page 511, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 532, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5948

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 奈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奈) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
奈 *naːls, *naːds
柰 *naːds
渿 *naːds
捺 *naːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 奈 奈
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 泥 (8) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 泰 (25) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 奴帶切 奴箇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nɑiH/ /nɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nɑiH/ /nɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /nɑiH/ /nɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /najH/ /naH/
Li
Rong		 /nɑiH/ /nɑH/
Wang
Li		 /nɑiH/ /nɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /nɑiH/ /nɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nài nuò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ najH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nˤa[t]-s/
English cope with

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 奈 奈
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9349 9350
Phonetic
component		 奈 奈
Rime
group		 歌 祭
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 奈 柰
Old
Chinese		 /*naːls/ /*naːds/

Definitions

奈

  1. how, why (used in rhetorical questions)
  2. bear, stand, endure
  3. The SI unit prefix nano-

Japanese

Kanji

奈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. Abbreviation of 奈良: the city of Nara
  2. what
  3. (obsolete) apple tree

Readings

Korean

Hanja

奈 • ‎(nae, na) (hangeul 내, 나, revised nae, na, McCune-Reischauer nae, na)

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Old Japanese

Alternative forms

Noun

奈 ‎(na) ‎(kana な)

  1. fish
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 5, poem 869)
      多良志比賣 可尾能美許等能 奈都良須等 美多々志世利斯 伊志遠多礼美吉
      足姫　神の命の　魚釣らすと　み立たしせりし　石を誰れ見き
      たらしひめ　かみのみことの　なつらすと　みたたしせりし　いしをたれみき
      tarashi hime kami no mikoto no na tsurasu to mi-tatashi serishi ishi wo tare miki
      who saw the rock that rose up against us as we tried to catch the fish belonging to the empress?

Descendants

  • Japanese: 魚 ‎(na)

Vietnamese

Han character

奈 (nại, nhự)

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Etymology

A variant of 柰.

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