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納

納

See also: 纳

Translingual

Han character

納 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火人月 (VFOB), four-corner 24927, composition ⿰糸内)

  1. admit, take, receive, accept
  2. The SI unit prefix nano

References

  • KangXi: page 916, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27264
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1345, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3373, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7D0D

Chinese

trad. 納
simp. 纳

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
呐 *nod
焫 *njod
訥 *nuːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nuːb) : semantic 糸 ‎(“silk, thin thread”) + phonetic 内. Modern nà, from Middle Chinese nəp, from Old Chinese *nuːb. Original sense: "to patch old cloths", "to make enter → to accept, to receive; to contribute". The latter sense is the causative of 入 (rù, from MC ȵip, from Old Chinese *njub, "to enter"), the glyph which is part of 內, the traditional form of 内 ("to be inside"). Also cognate with 内 (nèi, from MC nuoi, from Old Chinese *nuːbs, "to be in, inside").

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 納
Mandarin Beijing /na⁵¹/
Harbin /na²⁴/ 出～
/na⁵³/ ～鞋底兒
Tianjin /nɑ⁵³/
Jinan /na²¹/
/na²¹³/ ～鞋底兒
Qingdao /na⁴²/
Zhengzhou /na²⁴/
Xi'an /na²¹/
Xining /na⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /na¹³/
Lanzhou /la⁵³/
Ürümqi /na²¹³/
Wuhan /na²¹³/
Chengdu /na³¹/
Guiyang /na²¹/
Kunming /na̠³¹/
Nanjing /lɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /lɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /naʔ²/
Pingyao /nʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /naʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /naʔ¹/
Suzhou /nəʔ³/
Hangzhou /nɑʔ²/
Wenzhou /nø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /na²²/
Tunxi /lɔ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /la²⁴/
Xiangtan /nɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /laʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /nap̚⁵/
Taoyuan /nɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nap̚²/
Nanning /nap̚²²/
Hong Kong /nap̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lap̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /naʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /na⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /nap̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /nap̚³/ 出～
/nap̚⁵/ ～粹
Rime
Character 納
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 合 (160)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 奴荅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nʌp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nəp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /nɒp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /nəp̚/
Li
Rong		 /nᴀp̚/
Wang
Li		 /nɒp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /năp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nà
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 納
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nà
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nop ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nˤ[u]p/
English bring or send in

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 納
Reading # 1/1
No. 9391
Phonetic
component		 內
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*nuːb/

Etymology 1

Verb

納

  1. to accept; to receive
Derived terms
See also
  • 付 (fù)
  • 給錢／给钱 (gěiqián)
  • 支付 (zhīfù)

Etymology 2

Prefix

納

  1. (SI unit) nano-

Japanese

Kanji

納

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Proper noun

納 ‎(hiragana おさむ, romaji Osamu)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

納 • ‎(nap) (hangeul 납, revised nap, McCune-Reischauer nap, Yale nap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

納 (nạp, nấp, nập, nép, nớp, núp, nượp, nuốt, nầm, nóp, nốp, nộp)

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