Chinese Character Wiki

迺

nǎi

then

Evolution

迺 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
迺 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
迺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
迺 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

迺  

nǎi

then, thereupon, only then

乃 (迺) 

nǎi

variant of 乃[nǎi]

Most common words with 迺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

乃

to be

木乃伊

mummy (preserved corpse) (loanword)

乃至

and even

乃是

equivalent to either 是[shì] or 就是[jiù​shì]

康乃馨

carnation or clove pink

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤərʔ (MC irreg.)

nojX

nǎi

then


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.3477% of movies

2296th most common character in movies

1165th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+8FFA

Shuowen

“，驚聲也。从乃省，西聲。籀文，不省。或曰：，往也。讀若仍。，古文。”


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