Dong Chinese dictionary

ná

take

Phonosemantic compound. 手 represents the meaning and 奴 represents the sound.

Components

nú

slave

拏 and 奴 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.拏 /*nˤra/
奴 /*nˤa/

手 Meaning component

shǒu

hand

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

ná

take; bring; grasp, hold; arrest

ná

variant of 拿[ná]

Most common words with 拏

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