纳

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to receive; to accept; to enjoy; to bring into; to pay (tax etc); nano- (one billionth); to reinforce sole of shoes or stockings by close sewing

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

纟 meaning “silk” + 内 sound ( nèi )

Components 纟内

let in · Heisig RSH #2390

thread + 丙 third

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
利纳克斯	Lì nà kè sī	Linux (operating systems)
马拉多纳	Mǎ lā duō nà	Diego Maradona (1960–2020), Argentine footballer
马纳马	Mǎ nà mǎ	Manama, capital of Bahrain
拉文纳	Lā wén nà	Ravenna on the Adriatic coast of Italy
罗纳尔多	Luó nà ěr duō	Ronaldo (name); Cristiano Ronaldo (1985-), Portuguese soccer player
安纳波利斯	Ān nà bō lì sī	Annapolis (place name)
北马里亚纳	Běi Mǎ lǐ yà nà	Northern Mariana Islands
高德纳	Gāo Dé nà	the Chinese name of American computer scientist Donald Knuth (1938-), adopted prior to his…
纳斯达克	Nà sī dá kè	Nasdaq (stock exchange)
科纳克里	Kē nà kè lǐ	Conakry, capital of Guinea
纳兰性德	Nà lán Xìng dé	Nalan Xingde (1655-1685), Manchu ethnic Qing dynasty poet
巴特纳	Bā tè nà	Batna, town in eastern Algeria
玉龙纳西族自治县	Yù lóng Nà xī zú Zì zhì xiàn	Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, in Lijiang City 麗江市\|丽江市[Li4 jiang1 Shi4], Yunnan
卡罗利纳	Kǎ luó lì nà	Carolina (Puerto Rico)
纳西族	Nà xī zú	Nakhi ethnic group
南卡罗来纳	Nán Kǎ luó lái nà	South Carolina, US state
加德纳	Jiā dé nà	Gardner (name)
拉纳卡	Lā nà kǎ	Larnaca (city in Cyprus); Larnaka
卡纳维拉尔角	Kǎ nà wéi lā ěr jiǎo	Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心[Ken3 ni2 di2 Hang2 tian1 Zho…
纳西	Nà xī	Nakhi ethnic group

Characters sharing the sound component 内 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
内 sound part	nèi	inside
钠	nà	sodium, natrium; to sharpen wood
讷	nè	inarticulate, slow; to mumble, to stammer
呐	nà	to raise one's voice; to yell, to shout; to stammer
芮	ruì	tiny, small; the water's edge
枘	ruì	a handle for a tool
肭	nà	fat, blubber; a seal
衲	nà	to sew, to mend; quilt; patch; cassock
蚋	ruì	mosquito, gnat