捺

Translingual

Etymology

扌 (“hand”) + 奈 – to press down with the hand, stamp.

Han character

捺 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手大一火 (QKMF), four-corner 5409₁)

1. to press down heavily with the fingers

References

• KangXi: page 435, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12221
• Dae Jaweon: page 785, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1893, character 2
• Unihan data for U+637A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

捺 (Yale naat6)

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Japanese

Kanji

捺

Readings

• On: なつ (natsu), だつ (datsu)
• Kun: おす (osu)

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Korean

Hanja

捺 (hangeul 날, revised nal, McCune-Reischauer nal, Yale nal)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

捺 (pinyin nà (na4), Wade-Giles na⁴)

Last modified on 11 January 2011, at 14:03