Chinese Character Wiki
諾

nuò

promise

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 若 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

若 sound component

若  Sound component

ruò

  

if

Evolution

諾 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
諾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
諾 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
諾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
諾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

诺 (諾) 

nuò

promise; assent, approve; to consent; to promise; (literary) yes!

Most common words with 諾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

承诺

to promise

诺

to consent

诺言

promise

诺基亚

Nokia (company name)

许诺

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

诺

Unicode

U+8AFE

Shuowen

“諾，也。从言，若聲。”


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