Chinese Character Wiki
拿

ná

take

Originally written as a hand (手) taking an object. Later written as 拏 with the phonetic 奴 component added. Later the 奴 component was corrupted to 合.

Components
奴 sound component

奴  Sound component

nú

  

slave

Later corrupted to the visually similar character 合.

手 meaning component

手  Meaning component

shǒu

  

hand

Evolution

拿 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
拿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拿 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
拿 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

拿 (拏) 

ná

variant of 拿[ná]

拿  

ná

take, hold, grasp; bring; with; to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[bǎ]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)

拿 (㧱) 

ná

old variant of 拿[ná]

Most common words with 拿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拿

to hold

拿出

to take out

加拿大

Canada

拿走

to take away

拿起

to pick up

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

镎

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤra

nrae

ná

handle (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 95.5790% of movies

223rd most common character in movies

645th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

拏

Unicode

U+62FF


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