nuó
rich
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 難 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*nˤar | na | nuó | expel demons |
*nˤar | na | nuó | rich, ample, fine, beautiful |
*nˤarʔ | naX | nuó | rich, beautiful |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3777th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+513A |
Shuowen | “儺，行人節也。从人，難聲。” |
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