(nǎ) - which, where in Mandarin

nǎ

Traditional: 哪

[na˨˩˦] HSK 2

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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cài？荐jiàn？

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.

哪里nǎlǐwhere 哪儿nǎ érwhere (spoken)哪个nǎ gèwhich, which one

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