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哪

Mandarin · pinyin nǎ#

Meanings · nǎ

  1. how
  2. which
Mandarin · pinyin na#

Meanings · na

  1. (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊 a after a word ending in "n")
Mandarin · pinyin né#

Meanings · né

  1. used in 哪吒 Né zhā
  2. Taiwan pr. nuó
Mandarin · pinyin něi#

Meanings · něi

  1. which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)
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nǎ · which? where? how?
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3 · na3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

naa1 · naa4 · naa5 · no4

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character · Etymology 1

  1. which; what
  2. any
  3. Indefinite determiner.
  4. where
  5. wherever; anywhere; everywhere
  6. (rhetorical question) how (used in rhetorical questions)

character · Etymology 2

  1. Sentence-final particle, equivalent to 啊 (a).

character · Etymology 3

  1. only used in 哪吒 (Nézhā)

character · Etymology 4

  1. Used to indicate something that should be noticed.

character · Etymology 5

  1. Used in personal names.

character · Etymology 6

  1. only used in 哪哪

character · Etymology 7

  1. (Zhangzhou-Hokkien) what
  2. (Zhangzhou-Hokkien) interjection used to express surprise
  3. (Zhangzhou-Hokkien) then why; how

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哪 · na3 · na5 · ne2 · nei3
CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · edition 2026-10-13 · source lines 21,814, 21,815, 21,816, 21,817
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Exact source records哪 哪 [na3] /how/which/哪 哪 [na5] /(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")/哪 哪 [ne2] /used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]/Taiwan pr. [nuo2]/哪 哪 [nei3] /which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)/