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乃

nǎi

Character

What 乃 means

1. to be
2. thus
3. so
4. therefore
5. then
6. only
7. thereupon

Other readings

乃 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• nǎivariant of {乃|nǎi}

Example sentences

• 是木乃伊！
  It's a mummy!
• 木乃伊哭了。
  Mummy cried.
• 木乃伊在工作。
  Mummy's working.
• 木乃伊在行走。
  The mummy is walking.
• 犯错乃人之常情。
  Fàncuò nǎi rénzhīchángqíng.
  It is human to make mistakes.
• 他看起来像一具木乃伊。
  He looked like a mummy.

Words starting with 乃

• 乃至nǎi zhìand even; to go so far as to
• 乃是nǎi shìequivalent to either 是
• 乃们nǎi menyou (plural) (slang alternative for 你们
• 乃尔nǎi ěrthus; like this
• 乃堆拉Nǎi duī lāNathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)
• 乃东区Nǎi dōng QūNedong, a district of Shannan City 山南市
• 乃堆拉山口Nǎi duī lā Shān kǒuNathu La…
• 乃东Nǎi dōngsee 乃东区

Words containing 乃

• 木乃伊mù nǎi yī(loanword) mummy (preserved corpse)
• 康乃馨kāng nǎi xīncarnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) (loanword)
• 西乃Xī nǎiSinai
• 安乃近ān nǎi jìnanalgin (loanword)
• 美乃滋měi nǎi zīmayonnaise (loanword) (Tw)
• 西乃山Xī nǎi ShānMount Sinai
• 吉木乃县Jí mù nǎi XiànJeminay Ciunty, a county in Altay Prefecture 阿勒泰地区
• 木乃伊化mù nǎi yī huàto mummify; mummification
• 纳塔乃耳Nà tǎ nǎi ěrNathaniel
• 康乃狄克Kāng nǎi dí kèConnecticut, US state (Tw)
• 欸乃ǎi nǎi(onomatopoeia; literary) the creaking of a stern-mounted oar
• 百胜难虑敌，三折乃良医bǎi shèng nán lǜ dí , sān zhé nǎi liáng yī(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 刘禹锡…
• 吉木乃Jí mù nǎisee 吉木乃县

Sounds the same

Read nǎi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 奶breast; milk; to breastfeed
• 氖neon (chemistry)
• 倷you (dialect)
• 釢(old) neodymium; neptunium (chemistry)
• 迺variant of 乃
• 艿see 芋艿