take

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
奴 sound component

  Sound component

  

slave

手 meaning component

  Meaning component

shǒu

  

hand

Evolution

拏 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
拏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

take; bring; grasp, hold; arrest

() 

variant of [ná]

Most common words with 拏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to hold

拿出

to take out

加拿大

Canada

拿走

to take away

拿起

to pick up

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤra

nrae

handle (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 95.5790% of movies

223rd most common character in movies

645th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+62CF

Shuowen

“拏,牽引也。从手,奴聲。”


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