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Translingual

Han character

(radical 126 +3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一月木戈 (MBDI), four-corner 14200, composition)

  1. endure, bear
  2. resist
  3. patient

References

  • KangXi: page 962, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28879
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2811, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8010

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nɯːs
*nɯːs, *njɯ
*njɯ
*njɯ, *njuɡ
*njɯ
*njɯ
*njɯ
*njɯ
*njɯ
*njɯ
*njɯ
*njɯ
*nɯɡ, *nuɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (8)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/nəiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nəjH/
Li
Rong
/nᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/nɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/nɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nài
Middle
Chinese
‹ nojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˤə-s/
English endure

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2718
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nɯːs/
Notes

Definitions

  1. durable
  2. to bear; to endure
  3. (Cantonese, of time) long
  4. (Cantonese, of time) taking a long time to happen

Compounds

  • 不可耐
  • 不寧不耐不宁不耐
  • 不耐 (bùnài)
  • 不耐心煩不耐心烦
  • 不耐煩不耐烦 (bùnàifán)
  • 俗不可耐
  • 刻苦耐勞刻苦耐劳
  • 叵耐 (pǒnài)
  • 吃苦耐勞吃苦耐劳 (chīkǔnàiláo)
  • 尀耐
  • 忍耐 (rěnnài)
  • 急不可耐
  • 施耐庵
  • 末耐何
  • 沒耐煩没耐烦
  • 等耐
  • 美耐板
  • 美耐皿
  • 耐不住
  • 耐久 (nàijiǔ)
  • 耐久品
  • 耐久朋
  • 耐久財耐久财
  • 耐人尋味耐人寻味
  • 耐儲大蒜耐储大蒜
  • 耐力 (nàilì)
  • 耐勞耐劳 (nàiláo)
  • 耐可
  • 耐寒
  • 耐心 (nàixīn)
  • 耐性 (nàixìng)
  • 耐撞
  • 耐旱
  • 耐火材料
  • 耐火磚耐火砖
  • 耐煩耐烦 (nàifán)
  • 耐熱耐热
  • 耐用 (nàiyòng)
  • 耐看
  • 耐著性子
  • 耐震 (nàizhèn)
  • 耐頭耐头
  • 耐龍耐龙
  • 能耐 (néngnài)
  • 難耐难耐
  • 頗耐颇耐

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. withstand

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(nae) (hangeul , revised nae, McCune-Reischauer nae, Yale nay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nại, naị, nài, nề)

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