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娜

nà

Character

What 娜 means

1. (phonetic na)
2. used esp. in female names such as Anna {安娜|Ān nà} or Diana {黛安娜|Dài ān nà}

Other readings

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

• nuóelegant; graceful

Example sentences

• 我叫安娜。
  My name is Anna.
• 她是安娜。
  She is Ana.
• 安娜再见！
  Goodbye, Anna!
• 你叫安娜。
  You are Anna.
• 你是安娜。
  You are Anna.
• 我爱娜塔莎。
  I love Natasha.

Words starting with 娜

• 娜娜Nà nàNana (name); Nana (1880 novel by Émile Zola); Nana (Japanese manga series)
• 娜塔莉Nà tǎ lìNatalie (name)

Words containing 娜

• 李娜Lǐ NàLi Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles…
• 蒙娜丽莎Méng nà Lì shāMona Lisa
• 婀娜ē nuó(of a woman) graceful; elegant; lithe
• 雅典娜Yǎ diǎn nàAthena
• 麦当娜Mài dāng nàMadonna (1958-), US pop singer
• 卡洛娜kǎ luò nàcalzone (Italian pocket), folded pizza
• 拉尼娜Lā Ní nàLa Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño…
• 科罗娜Kē luó nàCorona (beer)
• 赛德娜Sài dé nàSedna, small body in the outer reaches of the solar system
• 亚利安娜Yà lì ān nàAriane (French space rocket)
• 奥西娜斯Ào xī nuó sīOceanus, a Titan in Greek mythology
• 叶卡捷琳娜Yè kǎ jié lín nàYekaterina or Ekaterina (name); Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727)…
• 蕾哈娜Lěi hā nàRihanna (1988-), Barbadian pop singer
• 黛安娜Dài ān nàDiana (goddess in Roman mythology)
• 戴安娜王妃Dài ān nà wáng fēiDiana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)
• 袅娜niǎo nuóslim and graceful
• 娉婷袅娜pīng tíng niǎo nuó(idiom) (of a woman) gorgeous and graceful; lithe and lovely
• 安娜Ān nàAnna (name)
• 安娜·卡列尼娜Ān nà · Kǎ liè ní nàAnna Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy 列夫·列夫·托尔斯泰
• 贝娜齐尔·布托Bèi nà qí ěr Bù tuōBenazir Bhutto (1953–2007), Pakistani politician, prime minister 1988–90 and 1993–96
• 耶莱娜·扬科维奇Yé lái nuó · Yáng kē wéi qíJelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player
• 戴安娜Dài ān nàDiana (name)
• 汉娜Hàn nàHannah (name)
• 丽佳娜Lì jiā nàRegina (name)

Characters that look like 娜

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 姆mǔ(old) female tutor; used in 保姆
• 挪nuóto shift; to move
• 娴xiánelegant; refined; to be skilled at
• 桦huà(botany) birch (genus Betula)
• 郝Hǎoancient place name; surname Hao
• 郴chēnused in 郴州

Sounds the same

Read nà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 那(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. nèi); (pronoun) that…
• 纳to receive; to accept; to enjoy
• 呐battle cry
• 衲cassock; to line
• 捺to press down firmly; to suppress; right-falling stroke in Chinese characters…
• 钠sodium (chemistry)
• 軜inner reins of a 4-horse team
• 肭used in 腽肭