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哪

Cantonese · source Jyutpingnaa1#

a sentence final particle to add emphasis

Cantonese · source Jyutpingnaa4#

part of the name of Nezha, a figure in Chinese legend

Cantonese · source Jyutpingno4#

part of the name of Nezha, a figure in Chinese legend

Cantonese · source Jyutpingnaa5#

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

naa11 · high level

naa44 · low falling

no44 · low falling

naa55 · low rising

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Tone difference from Unihan

哪 is read naa1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is naa5. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 哪 naa1 as its own entry.

Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).

Same syllable, six tones

naanaa1—乸naa2feminine suffixnaa3—拿naa4to hold 那naa5thatnaa6—

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

哪

Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

哪 nǎ CC-CEDICT · Mandarinhow; which
哪 na CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊 a after a word ending in "n")
哪 né CC-CEDICT · Mandarinused in 哪吒 Né zhā; Taiwan pr. nuó

A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: na3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 14 senses · 4 Cantonese readings

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

naa1 · naa4 · naa5 · no4

Cantonese word readings for 哪. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

character · Etymology 1

which; what
any
Indefinite determiner.
where
wherever; anywhere; everywhere
(rhetorical question) how (used in rhetorical questions)

character · Etymology 2

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

character · Etymology 3

only used in 哪吒 (Nézhā)

character · Etymology 4

Used to indicate something that should be noticed.

character · Etymology 5

Used in personal names.

character · Etymology 6

only used in 哪哪

character · Etymology 7

(Zhangzhou-Hokkien) what
(Zhangzhou-Hokkien) interjection used to express surprise
(Zhangzhou-Hokkien) then why; how

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