ná
take
Phonosemantic compound. 手 represents the meaning and 奴 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*nˤra | nrae | ná | 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。” |
Sources
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