乃
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to be; thus; so; therefore; then; only; thereupon
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 丿 +1
- Structure
- Upper-right enclosure 右上包
- Traditional
- 乃
- Common rank
- #2,322
- Unicode
- U+4E43
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 乃 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A pregnant woman; compare 孕
Components 丿
? unknown part
How to remember it
only then · Heisig RSH #625
— as a component also called: fist
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 乃
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吉木乃县 | Jeminay Ciunty, a county in Altay Prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[A1 le4 tai4 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang | |
| 百胜难虑敌，三折乃良医 | (a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡[Liu2 Yu3 xi1]) one gains very little… | |
| 乃堆拉山口 | Nathu La (Himalayan pass on the Silk Road between Tibet and the northeastern Indian state … | |
| 木乃伊化 | to mummify; mummification | |
| 西乃山 | Mount Sinai | |
| 乃东区 | Nedong, a district of Shannan City 山南市[Shan1 nan2 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 纳塔乃耳 | Nathaniel | |
| 吉木乃 | see 吉木乃縣|吉木乃县[Ji2 mu4 nai3 Xian4] | |
| 安乃近 | analgin (loanword) | |
| 木乃伊 | (loanword) mummy (preserved corpse) | |
| 乃尔 | thus; like this | |
| 西乃 | Sinai | |
| 乃东 | see 乃東區|乃东区[Nai3 dong1 Qu1] | |
| 乃堆拉 | Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim) | |
| 康乃狄克 | Connecticut, US state (Tw) | |
| 乃是 | equivalent to either 是[shi4] or 就是[jiu4 shi4] | |
| 美乃滋 | mayonnaise (loanword) (Tw) | |
| 乃至 | and even; to go so far as to | |
| 乃们 | you (plural) (slang alternative for 你們|你们[ni3 men5]) | |
| 康乃馨 | carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) (loanword) |
Sound family
These characters use 乃 as their sound component — compare how they read.