nuò
promise
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 若 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 諾
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to promise | ||
to consent | ||
promise | ||
Nokia (company name) | ||
promise |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*nˤak | nak | nuò | agree, say yes |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 33.8940% of movies
818th most common character in movies
969th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AFE |
Shuowen | “諾,也。从言,若聲。” |
Sources
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