訥

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See also: 讷
訥 U+8A25, 訥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A25
← 訤
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 訦 →

Translingual

Han character

訥 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜口人月 (YROB), four-corner 04627, composition ⿰訁內)

  1. slow of speech
  2. mumble
  3. stammer

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1150, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35274
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1617, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3946, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8A25

Chinese

trad. 訥
simp. 讷
alternative forms 吶／呐
㕯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (內) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妠 *nuːms, *nuːb, *rnoːd
內 *nuːbs
笍 *tnobs, *njobs
芮 *njobs
枘 *njobs
汭 *njobs
鈉 *njobs
蜹 *njobs, *lobs, *njod
抐 *nuːns, *nuːd
納 *nuːb
衲 *nuːb
魶 *nuːb, *noːb
軜 *nuːb
蒳 *nuːb
豽 *rnuːd
肭 *rnuːd, *nuːd, *nuɡ
吶 *nod
焫 *njod
訥 *nuːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *nuːd) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 內 (OC *nuːbs, “inside”)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 訥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 魂 (56)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 内骨切
Baxter nwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/nuət̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/nuot̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/nuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/nwət̚/
Li
Rong 		/nuət̚/
Wang
Li 		/nuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/nuət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		nù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		neot6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 訥
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		nè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nwot ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nˁut/
English slow of speech

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 訥
Reading # 1/1
No. 9404
Phonetic
component 		內
Rime
group 		物
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*nuːd/

Definitions

訥

  1. slow of speech; speaking in a clumsy manner
  2. taciturn; speaking little

Usage notes

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

訥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 訥 (MC nwot). Recorded as Middle Korean 눌 (nwul) (Yale: nwul) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

訥 (eumhun 말 더듬을 눌 (mal deodeumeul nul))

  1. Hanja form? of 눌 (“mumble; stammer”).

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Middle Mongol

MongolianʼPhags-paHanzi
ᠤꡟ訥

Suffix

訥 (-u)

  1. Hanzi form of ᠤ (-u).

Vietnamese

Han character

訥: Hán Nôm readings: nột, dốt, nói, nốt, nuốt

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