讷
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to speak slowly; inarticulate
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 言 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 訥
- Common rank
- #2,970
- Unicode
- U+8BB7
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 讷
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 讷河市 | Nehe, a county-level city in Qiqihar City 齊齊哈爾市|齐齐哈尔市[Qi2 qi2 ha1 er3 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 罗讷河 | Rhone River, France | |
| 基希讷乌 | Chişinău or Chisinau, capital of Moldova | |
| 木讷寡言 | honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom) | |
| 口讷 | (literary) inarticulate | |
| 讷河 | see 訥河市|讷河市[Ne4 he2 Shi4] | |
| 木讷 | wooden and slow of speech; slow-speeched; inarticulate; unsophisticated | |
| 乌讷楚 | Uxin or Wushen banner in southwest Ordos prefecture 鄂爾多斯|鄂尔多斯[E4 er3 duo1 si1], Inner Mong… | |
| 刚毅木讷 | resolute and taciturn (idiom) | |
| 迂讷 | overcautious; conservative and dull in conversation | |
| 讷涩 | clumsy in speech; tongue tied | |
| 讷讷 | (of speech) indistinct; mumbling; hesitating |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 内 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 内 sound part | inside | |
| 纳 | to adopt, to accept; to receive, to take | |
| 钠 | sodium, natrium; to sharpen wood | |
| 呐 | to raise one's voice; to yell, to shout; to stammer | |
| 芮 | tiny, small; the water's edge | |
| 枘 | a handle for a tool | |
| 肭 | fat, blubber; a seal | |
| 衲 | to sew, to mend; quilt; patch; cassock | |
| 蚋 | mosquito, gnat |