奴
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Contents
TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
奴 (radical 38, 女+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 女水 (VE), four-corner 47440, composition ⿰女又)
Derived charactersEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 254, character 26
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6039
- Dae Jaweon: page 517, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1024, character 7
- Unihan data for U+5974
ChineseEdit
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奴 | |
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Glyph originEdit
| Historical forms of the character 奴 | ||||
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (女) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 拿 | *rnaː |
| 拏 | *rnaː |
| 詉 | *rnaː |
| 蒘 | *rnaː, *na |
| 笯 | *rnaː, *naː, *naːs |
| 挐 | *rnaː, *na |
| 絮 | *rnaːs, *nas, *snas, *nas |
| 呶 | *rnaːw |
| 怓 | *rnaːw |
| 帑 | *n̥ʰaːŋʔ, *naː |
| 奴 | *naː |
| 砮 | *naː, *naːʔ |
| 駑 | *naː |
| 孥 | *naː |
| 努 | *naːʔ |
| 弩 | *naːʔ |
| 怒 | *naːʔ, *naːs |
| 袽 | *na |
| 帤 | *na |
| 女 | *naʔ, *nas |
| 籹 | *naʔ |
| 恕 | *hnjas |
| 如 | *nja, *njas |
| 茹 | *nja, *njaʔ, *njas |
| 洳 | *nja, *njas |
| 鴽 | *nja |
| 蕠 | *nja |
| 汝 | *njaʔ |
| 肗 | *njaʔ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 女 (“woman”) + 又 (“hand”) – a hand capturing and ordering a woman around. 女 (OC *naʔ, *nas) may also be phonetic.
Some oracle bone script forms (not depicted above) are pictographic (象形), showing a person (probably a woman) with hands crossed at the back, as opposed to 女 which depicts a woman clasping her hands in front of the body.
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
奴
- slave; servant
- (polite) I
- (derogatory) a person associated with a particular identity or trait
- to enslave
SynonymsEdit
- (I):
| Dialectal synonyms of 我 (“I”) [map] | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 吾、我、私、余、予、台、朕 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 我 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 我 |
| Taiwan | 我 | |
| Jinan | 我、俺 | |
| Xi'an | 我 | |
| Wuhan | 我 | |
| Chengdu | 我 | |
| Yangzhou | 我 | |
| Hefei | 我 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 我 |
| Hong Kong | 我 | |
| Taishan | 我 | |
| Yangjiang | 我 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 我 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 𠊎 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 𠊎 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 𠊎 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 𠊎 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 𠊎 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 𠊎 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 𠊎 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 我 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 我 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 我、奴 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 我、阮 |
| Quanzhou | 我、阮 | |
| Zhangzhou | 我、阮 | |
| Taipei | 我、阮 | |
| Kaohsiung | 我、阮 | |
| Philippines (Manila) | 我 | |
| Chaozhou | 我 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 我、吾、阿拉 |
| Suzhou | 我、奴 | |
| Wenzhou | 我 | |
| Ningbo | 我、我儂、像我 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 我 |
| Shuangfeng | 我、卬 | |
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 奴
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
奴
- a thing, an object; (derogatory, familiar) a person
ReadingsEdit
- Goon: ぬ (nu)←ぬ (nu, historical)
- Kan’on: ど (do, Jōyō)←ど (do, historical)
- Kun: やっこ (yakko, 奴); やつ (yatsu, 奴); め (me, 奴)
- Nanori: ぬい (nui)
Pronunciation 1Edit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 奴 |
| やつ Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
NounEdit
奴 (hiragana やつ, katakana ヤツ, rōmaji yatsu)
- (colloquial, impolite) fellow, chap, guy
PronounEdit
奴 (hiragana やつ, katakana ヤツ, rōmaji yatsu)
- (colloquial, impolite) he, she
- 1988 July 30 [Jul 25 1984], Fujiko F. Fujio, “おれ、夕子 [I, Yūko]”, in ポストの中の明日 [Post-Mid-Tomorrow] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 2), volume 2 (fiction, in Japanese), 10th edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 65:
- 解説者はたしかに中身まで女だったと断言した。きくなり、おれはヤツをぶんなぐった。
- Kaisetsusha wa tashika ni nakami made onna datta to dangenshita. Kiku nari, ore wa yatsu o bunnagutta.
- The commentator asserted that all my ins and outs had completely turned female. Upon hearing that, I just knocked him to the ground.
- 解説者はたしかに中身まで女だったと断言した。きくなり、おれはヤツをぶんなぐった。
Usage notesEdit
- This is an example of a word that can be spelled with katakana to convey an informal conversational tone, as ヤツ.
Pronunciation 2Edit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 奴 |
| やっこ Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
NounEdit
奴 (hiragana やっこ, rōmaji yakko)
Pronunciation 3Edit
SuffixEdit
- Derogatory suffix attached to people's names or words that refer to people, animals, etc.
- ばか奴！
- Baka-me!
- Idiot!
- Леонид Андреев (Leonid Andrejev) (translator 森鴎外), 犬 (Кусака (Kusaka))
- 「来いといったら来い。シュッチュカ奴。馬鹿な奴だ。己れはどうもしやしない。」[1]
- “Koi to ittara koi. Shutchuka-me. Baka na yatsu da. Onore wa dōmo shi ya shinai.”
- "If I say come, come. Silly Zhuchka. You fool. I won't do anything to you."
- 「来いといったら来い。シュッチュカ奴。馬鹿な奴だ。己れはどうもしやしない。」[1]
- ばか奴！
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
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VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
- (colloquial) he, she, it
Usage notesEdit
- Chữ Nôm.
- This is the common form of this character. The regular form is 伮.
- The term is de facto used to refer to any animal (including the human) in the third person, in a disrespectful manner. The use of the term to translate the English it, or to refer to an inanimate object, is rather artificial, and mostly found in awkward (but common) translation of other languages.