娜

娜	U+5A1C, 娜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A1C

← 娛
[U+5A1B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

娝 →
[U+5A1D]

Translingual

Han character

娜 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女尸手中 (VSQL), four-corner 4742₇, composition ⿰女那)

Derived characters

𦶦

References

KangXi: page 262, character 23

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6311

Dae Jaweon: page 529, character 23

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1048, character 7

Unihan data for U+5A1C

Chinese

trad.		娜
simp. ^#		娜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
那	naːl, naːlʔ, *naːls
挪	*naːl
娜	*naːlʔ
柟	noːm, njam, *njamʔ
抩	*noːm
聃	n̥ʰaːm, n̥ʰaːm
舑	n̥ʰaːm, njam
坍	*n̥ʰaːm
髯	njam, njams
蚺	*njam
呥	*njam
冉	njam, njamʔ
袡	*njam
苒	*njamʔ
姌	njamʔ, neːmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *naːlʔ) : semantic 女 + phonetic 那 (OC *naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nuó (nuo²)
(Zhuyin): ㄋㄨㄛˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): no⁵
Min Nan (POJ): nó͘ / ná / nǎ / ló

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: nuó
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄨㄛˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: nuó
  - Wade–Giles: no²
  - Yale: nwó
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nuo
  - Palladius: но (no)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nwɔ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: no⁵
  - Yale: nóh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: no⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: no⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔː¹³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nó͘
  - Tâi-lô: nóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: nor
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /nɔ̃⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /nɔ̃⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ná
  - Tâi-lô: ná
  - Phofsit Daibuun: nar
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /nã⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /nã⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /nã⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nǎ
  - Tâi-lô: nǎ
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /nã²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ló
  - Tâi-lô: ló
  - Phofsit Daibuun: loir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lo⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lo⁵³/

Note:

nó͘ - literary;
ná/nǎ/ló - vernacular.

Middle Chinese: /nɑ^X/

Rime
Character	娜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	奴可切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nɑ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/nɑ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/nɑ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/na^X/
Li Rong	/nɑ^X/
Wang Li	/nɑ^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/nɑ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nuǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	no⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*naːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	娜
Reading #	1/1
No.	10768
Phonetic component	冉
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	橠
Old Chinese	/*naːlʔ/

Definitions

娜

beautiful; graceful

Compounds

夭娜
娜娜
娜婀
婀娜 (ēnuó)
婀娜多姿 (ēnuóduōzī)

窈娜
嫋娜／袅娜
嫋嫋娜娜／袅袅娜娜
嬌娜／娇娜
嬝娜／袅娜

嬝娜纖巧／袅娜纤巧
嬝娜風流／袅娜风流
嬝嬝娜娜／袅袅娜娜
裊娜／袅娜

Etymology 2

Pronunciation from modern pronunciation of its phonetic part 那 (nà). Originally used to transcribe foreign female personal names, then also used in Chinese female personal names.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nà (na⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄋㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): no⁴, naa⁴
Min Nan (POJ): nó͘ / ló / ná / na / nā

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: nà
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: nà
  - Wade–Giles: na⁴
  - Yale: nà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nah
  - Palladius: на (na)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: no⁴, naa⁴
  - Yale: nòh, nàh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: no⁴, naa⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: no⁴, na⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔː²¹/, /naː²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nó͘
  - Tâi-lô: nóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: nor
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /nɔ̃⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /nɔ̃⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ló
  - Tâi-lô: ló
  - Phofsit Daibuun: loir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lo⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ná
  - Tâi-lô: ná
  - Phofsit Daibuun: nar
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /nã⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: na
  - Tâi-lô: na
  - Phofsit Daibuun: naf
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /nã⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /nã³³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nā
  - Tâi-lô: nā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: na
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /nã³³/

Note:

nó͘ - literary;
ló/ná - vernacular;
na - vernacular (俗).

Definitions

娜

Used in female personal names.
歐陽娜娜／欧阳娜娜 ― Ōuyáng Nànà ― Ouyang Nana

Compounds

雅典娜 (Yǎdiǎnnà)
黛安娜 (Dài'ānnà)

愛洛娜／爱洛娜
漢娜／汉娜 (Hànnà)

莎喲娜拉／莎哟娜拉 (shāyōnàlā)
蒙娜麗莎／蒙娜丽莎 (Méngnà Lìshā)

Japanese

Kanji

娜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

graceful

Readings

Go-on: な (na)
Kan-on: だ (da)
Kun: おもむろ (omomuro, 娜); しなやか (shinayaka, 娜やか)

Compounds

娜准(なじゅん) (Najun)
婀娜(あだ) (ada)
采(あや)娜(な) (Ayana)
安娜(あんな) (Anna)
淑娜(しゅうな) (Shūna)
嫋娜(じょうだ), 裊娜(じょうだ) (jōda)
美娜(みな) (Mina)
有娜(ゆな) (Yuna)
莉娜(りな) (Rina)
麗娜(りな) (Rina)

Usage notes

Used in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE) as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨da⟩ and ⟨na⟩.

Korean

Hanja

娜 • (na) (hangeul 나, revised na, McCune–Reischauer na)

elegant
graceful
delicate

Tày

Noun

娜 (na̱)

Nôm form of na̱ (“maternal aunt, second wife”).

References

Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Han character

娜: Hán Nôm readings: na, nạ

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