na

raise voice

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

内 sound component

  Sound component

nèi

  

inside

Evolution

呐 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
呐 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

raise voice, yell out loud, shout; stammer; battle cry

() 

na

sentence-final particle (abbr. for 呢啊[ne​'a] or variant of [na])

Most common words with 呐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

battle cry

呐喊

shout

唢呐

also written 鎖吶|锁呐

摇旗呐喊

to give support to

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.2057% of movies

1620th most common character in movies

2899th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+5450


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