(nà) - that in Mandarin
nàTraditional: 那
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)
Stroke order
那
Examples
?。
Who is that person? I do not know him.
菜。
The food at that restaurant is especially good.
。
That was the first time I went to China.
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That is my car.
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That photo is beautiful.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 那.
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