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Mythic Mandarin

那 (nà): meaning and stroke order

那 (nà) means (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr.).

那

Simplified
那
Traditional
那 (same form)
Pinyin
nà · Nā · Nuó · nǎ

Stroke order of 那

那

  • Nā surname Na
  • Nuó surname Nuo
  • nǎ variant of 哪[na3]
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 那

  1. nà
    • (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4])
    • (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations)
    • then (in that case)
  2. Nā
    • surname Na
  3. Nuó
    • surname Nuo
  4. nǎ
    • variant of 哪[na3]
  5. nuó
    • (archaic) many
    • beautiful
    • how
    • old variant of 挪[nuo2]

Radical and structure

那
Radical 邑 (Kangxi radical 163) · 7 strokes · 𭃂 on the left, 阝 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 那

那 in our stories

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  • 那天晚上,村子下了一场大雨。

    nà tiān wǎnshang cūnzi xià le yì cháng dà yǔ

    That night heavy rain fell on the village.

    From the story The little dragon and the rain HSK 2

  • 可是那天晚上,许诺在家看电影,把音乐会忘了。

    kěshì nà tiān wǎnshang Xǔ Nuò zài jiā kàn diànyǐng bǎ yīnyuèhuì wàng le

    But that evening Xu Nuo stayed home watching a film and forgot the concert.

    From the story That last piece HSK 3

  • 那一刻,蒋悦觉得心里暖暖的,好像这个城市终于记住了她。

    nà yí kè Jiǎng Yuè juéde xīnli nuǎnnuǎn de hǎoxiàng zhè gè chéngshì zhōngyú jìzhù le tā

    At that moment Jiang Yue felt warm inside, as if the city had finally remembered her.

    From the story No chilli, please HSK 4

Stories using 那

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).