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HSK 1freq #547

Meanings

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  1. 1.how
  2. 2.which
  1. 1.used in 哪吒[Né zhā]
  2. 2.Taiwan pr. [nuó]
něi
  1. 1.which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)
na
  1. 1.(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a] after a word ending in "n")

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.which; what
  2. 2.any
  3. 3.Indefinite determiner.
  4. 4.where
  5. 5.wherever; anywhere; everywhere
  6. 6.how (used in rhetorical questions)
  7. 7.Sentence-final particle, equivalent to 啊 (a).
  8. 8.only used in 哪吒 (Nézhā)
  9. 9.Used to indicate something that should be noticed.
  10. 10.Used in personal names.
  11. 11.only used in 哪哪
  12. 12.what
  13. 13.interjection used to express surprise
  14. 14.then why; how

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Etymology

Written as 那 before the 20th century. It is generally considered to be the fusion of 奈何 (OC *naːls ɡaːl, “how”) (Wang, 1990; Sun, 1992; Shimura, 1995), usually citing Gu Yanwu's (顧炎武) commentary on Zuozhuan. Lü (1985) distinguishes between “which” (choosing among several choices), which he derives from 若 (OC *njaɡ), and “how” (asking for something), which he considers to be a fusion of 若何 (OC *njaɡ ɡaːl, “how”).

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