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 Dictionary: 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／形声, OC *naːlʔ) : semantic 女 + phonetic 那 (OC *naːl, *naːlʔ, *naːls).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nuó (nuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): no⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): nó͘ / ná / nǎ / ló

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• 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): /nu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: no⁵
    • Yale: nóh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: no⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: no⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔː¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (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.

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• Middle Chinese: naX

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
Baxter	naX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/nɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/nɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/naX/
Li Rong	/nɑX/
Wang Li	/nɑX/
Bernard Karlgren	/nɑX/
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

1. beautiful; graceful

Compounds

• 夭娜
• 娜娜
• 娜婀
• 婀娜 (ēnuó)
• 婀娜多姿 (ēnuóduōzī)
• 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
• 窈娜
• 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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): nó͘ / ló / ná / na / nā

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• 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–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: no⁴, naa⁴
    • Yale: nòh, nàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: no⁴, naa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: no⁴, na⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔː²¹/, /naː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (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

1. Used in female personal names.

   歐陽娜娜／欧阳娜娜  ―  Ōuyáng Nànà  ―  Ouyang Nana

Compounds

• 愛洛娜／爱洛娜
• 漢娜／汉娜 (Hànnà)
• 芙宁娜
• 莎喲娜拉／莎哟娜拉 (shāyōnàlā)
• 蒙娜麗莎／蒙娜丽莎 (Méngnà Lìshā)
• 雅典娜 (Yǎdiǎnnà)
• 黛安娜 (Dài'ānnà)

 

Japanese

Kanji

娜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. 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

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)

1. elegant
2. graceful
3. delicate

Tày

Noun

娜 (na̱)

1. 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]‎^[1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Han character

娜: Hán Nôm readings: na, nạ

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