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娜 meaning and stroke order

nà

Elegant, graceful, delicate

9 strokesRadical 女
Strokes9
Pinyinnà
ToneTone 4
Frequency#602
Printable worksheet

How to write 娜, stroke by stroke

9 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.

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Meaning of 娜

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.

nàfourth tone (falling)
  1. (phonetic na)
  2. used esp. in female names such as Anna 安娜[An1 na4] or Diana 黛安娜[Dai4 an1 na4]
nuósecond tone (rising)
  1. elegant
  2. graceful

How 娜 is built

Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Woman.

nǚfemale+nàthat

女 gives the meaning and 那 hints at the sound.

Radical: 女 (woman), shared by 156 characters on this site.

How to remember 娜

娜 combines 女 (nǚ, woman) with 那 (nà), which gives the sound. Picture a graceful woman standing over there (那), and you have a character for elegance that sounds like nà.

Today 娜 is mostly used to write the sound "na" in female names, both Chinese names and transliterations of foreign names. Example: 我的朋友叫安娜。(Wǒ de péngyou jiào Ānnà.) My friend is called Anna.

Common mistake: Learners often write 那 (nà, that) when they mean the name character 娜. Remember that names for women take the 女 side, so Anna is 安娜, not 安那.

娜 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

你nǐ朋péng友yǒu安ān娜nà这zhè个ge月yuè去qù中zhōng国guó。
Your friend Anna went to China this month.
那nà边biān的de那nà个ge女nǚ子zǐ是shì安ān娜nà。
That woman over there is Ana.
她tā叫jiào安ān娜nà，安ān娜nà和hé路lù易yì斯sī是shì同tóng事shì。
She is Anna; Anna and Louis are coworkers.
她tā不bú是shì卡kǎ门mén，她tā是shì安ān娜nà。
She's not Carmen, she's Anna.
安ān娜nà，这zhè是shì你nǐ的de车chē吗ma？
Anna, is this your car?

Questions about 娜

How many strokes are in 娜?

娜 is written with 9 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.

What does 娜 mean?

娜 (nà) means elegant, graceful, delicate.

How do you pronounce 娜?

娜 is pronounced nà, in the fourth tone (falling).

What is the radical of 娜?

The radical of 娜 is 女, which carries the idea of "woman". Dictionaries list 娜 under this radical.

Is 娜 pronounced nà or nuó?

In names like 安娜 (Ānnà) it is read nà, which is by far the most common reading. The reading nuó appears in the literary word 婀娜 (ēnuó), meaning graceful or willowy.

Can 娜 be used on its own as a word?

Not really. It almost always appears inside names such as 娜娜 (Nàna) or 丽娜 (Lìnà), or in the fixed word 婀娜 (ēnuó).