那

Nā

4 readings · tap one to hear it

(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case)

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Formation & memory

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Components 阝 ? unknown part

that · Heisig RSH #1476

razor wire + pinnacle — as a component also called: Alcatraz

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
那儿	nà r	there
那里	nà li	there; that place
那里	nà li	there; that place
那边	nà bian	over there; yonder
那些	nà xiē	those
大加那利岛	Dà Jiā nà lì Dǎo	Gran Canaria (in the Canary Islands)
那斯达克	Nà sī dá kè	(Tw) Nasdaq (stock exchange)
天那水	tiān nà shuǐ	(loanword) paint thinner
地拉那	Dì lā nà	Tirana, capital of Albania
那不勒斯王国	Nà bù lè sī wáng guó	Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)
那会儿	nà huì r	at that time (in the past or the future); also pr. [nei4 hui4 r5]
波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那共和国	Bō sī ní yà hé Hēi sài gē wéi nà Gòng hé guó	Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), wartime predecessor of the state of Bosnia…
本那比市	Běn nà bǐ shì	Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
路易斯安那	Lù yì sī ān nà	Louisiana, US state
西地那非	xī dì nà fēi	sildenafil (virility drug) (loanword)
多那太罗	Duō nǎ tài luó	Donatello (c. 1386-1466); Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, famous early Renaissance paint…
波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那	Bō sī ní yà hé Hēi sài gē wéi nà	Bosnia and Herzegovina
那拉提草原	Nà lā dī cǎo yuán	Nalat grasslands
那木巴尔·恩赫巴亚尔	Nǎ mù bā ěr · Ēn hè bā yà ěr	Nambaryn Enkhbayar (1958-), Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party politician, president o…
加那利群岛	Jiā nà lì Qún dǎo	Canary Islands

These characters use 那 as their sound component — compare how they read.