奈何

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Chinese

how can one help
carry; what; how
carry; what; how; why; which
 
trad. (奈何) 奈 何
simp. #(奈何) 奈 何
alternative forms 柰何

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 奈 奈 何
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/2
Initial (聲) 泥 (8) 泥 (8) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 泰 (25) 歌 (94) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) I I I
Fanqie 奴帶切 奴箇切 胡歌切
Baxter najH naH ha
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/nɑiH/ /nɑH/ /ɦɑ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/nɑiH/ /nɑH/ /ɦɑ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/nɑiH/ /nɑH/ /ɣɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/najH/ /naH/ /ɦa/
Li
Rong 		/nɑiH/ /nɑH/ /ɣɑ/
Wang
Li 		/nɑiH/ /nɑH/ /ɣɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/nɑiH/ /nɑH/ /ɣɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		nài nuò hé
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		naai6 no6 ho4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奈 何
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		nài hé
Middle
Chinese 		‹ najH › ‹ ha ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nˁa-s/ /*ˁaj/
English cope with what

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 奈 奈 何
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/2
No. 9349 9350 7458
Phonetic
component 		奈 奈 可
Rime
group 		歌 祭 歌
Rime
subdivision 		1 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		奈 柰 何
Old
Chinese 		/*naːls/ /*naːds/ /*ɡaːl/

Adverb

奈何

  1. (literary) how; what
  2. (literary) what is to be done; what can be done
  3. (literary) to no avail

Verb

奈⫽何 (verb-object)

  1. (literary) to do something to somebody
  2. to deal with; to cope with

Noun

奈何

  1. (literary) way out

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
奈 何
いかん
Grade: 4 Grade: 2
jukujikun
For pronunciation and definitions of 奈何 – see the following entry.
【如何いかん】
the whatevers, the whys and wherefores; however
howsoever, however
Alternative spelling
奈
(This term, 奈何, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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