HSK 3 · Verbs

拿 ná “carry in your hand” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 拿 means

  1. carry in your hand
  2. seize
  3. to catch
  4. to hold
  5. to apprehend
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to take
  • (used in the same way as 把: to mark the following noun as a direct object)

How to say 拿

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale拿ná2nd tone, rising

拿 in a sentence

  1. 去拿你的护照。

    Qù ná nǐ de hùzhào.

    Go and get your passport.

    Sentence #8621494 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他手里拿着什么？

    Tā shǒulǐ ná zhe shénme?

    What’s he holding in his hand?

    Sentence #10275183 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你自己拿蛋糕吃吧。

    Nǐ zìjǐ ná dàngāo chī ba.

    Help yourself to the cake.

    Sentence #332593 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 拿 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 拿 (ná) with each of its parts in a different colour
拿náto hold
  • 合to combine · gěSound part
  • 手hand · shǒuMeaning part

手 hints at the meaning (hand); 合 (gě) hints at the sound. Compare it with ná.

How to write 拿

拿 10 strokes

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拿 (ná) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 拿 (ná). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 拿

Words with 拿

拿手náshǒu · good at

More words: Common Verbs

经过jīngguò · to pass哭kū · cry离开líkāi · leave留学liúxué · study abroad努力nǔlì · to work hard爬山páshān · mountain climbing骑qí · to ride an animal or bike起飞qǐfēi · take off in an aeroplane

FAQs

拿 (ná) means “carry in your hand” or “seize”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it ná: ná with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 拿 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type na with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 拿 from the suggestions. Typing na into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
拿 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.