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(nà) - that in Mandarin

Traditional: 那

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[na˥˩] HSK 1
#11 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

that

Word origin

那 (nà) 'that' is the distal demonstrative. Historically it is a phono-semantic compound with the right-hand 阝 (邑, settlement) element, and was borrowed early for the pronoun meaning 'that'.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
phonetic body + 阝(邑, settlement)

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Examples

Who is that person? I do not know him.

cài

The food at that restaurant is especially good.

That was the first time I went to China.

That is my car.

That photo is beautiful.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 那.

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