(nǎ) - which, where in Mandarin
nǎTraditional: 哪
Translation
which, where
Word origin
哪 (nǎ) 'which, where' is a phono-semantic compound: the 口 (mouth) radical marks it as a spoken interrogative, and 那 (nà) supplies the sound and the demonstrative sense.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 口 (mouth, meaning) + 那 (nà, phonetic)
Stroke order
哪
Examples
？
Which country are you from?
菜？荐？
Which dish is the tastiest? What do you recommend?
？。
Which day are you free? We could meet up.
？
Which book is yours?
？
Which kind of tea would you like to drink?
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 哪.
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Grammar articles
(6)Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It
Mandarin Location and Existence: 在 for Where, 有 for There Is, and the 上/下/里/外 Position Words
Mandarin Question Formation: 吗, V-Not-V, 还是, and the In-Situ Wh-Word System
Mandarin Requests and Imperatives: 请, 别, 不要, the Softening Particles 吧/啊, and Verb Reduplication
The Mandarin 是…的 (shì...de) Construction: Highlighting When, Where, and How Something Happened
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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