nuó

that

Phonosemantic compound. ⻏ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
冄 sound component

  Sound component

rǎn

  

drooping

is a component form of .

⻏ meaning component

  Meaning component

  

city

⻏ is a component form of .

Evolution

那 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
那 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
那 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
那 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
那 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

that, that one, those; that; those; then (in that case); commonly pr. [nèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing

 

surname Na

 

Nuó

surname Nuo

 

variant of [nǎ]

 

nuó

(archaic) many; beautiful; how; old variant of [nuó]

Most common words with 那
Freq.
Word
Meaning

that

那么

like that

那个

that one

那些

those

那样

that kind

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (2 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤar

na

nuó

ample


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9359% of movies

18th most common character in movies

38th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+90A3

Shuowen

“,西夷國。从邑,冄聲。安定有朝縣。”


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