諾

諾 U+FABD, 諾 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FABD ← 謁 CJK Compatibility Ideographs 諭 →

諾 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+9 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 言+8 in simplified Chinese and Japanese, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in simplified Chinese and Japanese, cangjie input 卜口廿大口 (YRTKR), four-corner 0466₄, composition ⿰訁若)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1173, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35687
• Dae Jaweon: page 1638, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3984, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8AFE

• Unihan data for U+F95D

• Unihan data for U+FABD

Related to Burmese နက် (nak, “black; deep”).

諾 (*nak)

1. deep

• Hill, Nathan W. (2017) “Songs of the Bailang: A New Transcription with Etymological Commentary”, in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient‎, volume 103, pages 386—429

Historical forms of the character 諾
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *naːɡ) : semantic 言 (“word, speak”) + phonetic 若 (OC *nja, *njaʔ, *njaɡ, “like this; such”) — to answer affirmatively.

Cognate with 若 (OC *njaɡ, “like this; such; if”) (Schuessler, 2007).

諾

1. to promise
2. to assent; to approve
3. (literary or Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien) yes; aye; yea; right

From 儂／侬.

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諾

1. (Shaoxing Wu and Ningbonese) you

(Jōyō kanji)

1. agreement, consent, assent

• Go-on: なく (naku)
• Kan-on: だく (daku, Jōyō)
• Kun: うべなう (ubenau, 諾う)

諾 (eumhun 대답할 락 (daedaphal rak), word-initial (South Korea) 대답할 낙 (daedaphal nak))

1. hanja form^? of ] (“promise”)
2. hanja form^? of ] (“assent, approve”)

諾: Hán Nôm readings: nặc, nược

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