(ná) - to take, to hold, to grab in Mandarin
náTraditional: 拿
Translation
to take, to hold, to grab
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Word origin
拿 (ná) 'to take, to hold' is an ideograph combining 合 'to join, close' over 手 'hand', depicting a hand closing around something to grasp it.
- Origin
- ideograph
- Root
- 合 (join, close) + 手 (hand)
Stroke order
拿
Examples
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Bring the book here.
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You hold this.
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He took my money.
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Please help me carry the luggage.
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He is holding a bunch of flowers.
拿 (ná) means to take, to hold, to grab. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 拿.
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