衲

衲 U+8872, 衲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8872 ← 衱 [U+8871] CJK Unified Ideographs 衳 → [U+8873]

Translingual

Han character

衲 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+4, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 中人月 (LOB), four-corner 3422₇, composition ⿰衤内)

1. mend, sew, patch
2. line
3. quilt

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1112, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34130
• Dae Jaweon: page 1578, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3078, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8872

Chinese

trad.		衲
simp. #		衲

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nà (na⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naap⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): la̍p

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nà
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nà
    • Wade–Giles: na⁴
    • Yale: nà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nah
    • Palladius: на (na)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: naap⁶
    • Yale: naahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nab⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːp̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: la̍p
    • Tâi-lô: la̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lap
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /lap̚²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: nop

Rime
Character	衲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	合 (160)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	奴荅切
Baxter	nop
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nʌp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/nəp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/nɒp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nəp̚/
Li Rong	/nᴀp̚/
Wang Li	/nɒp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/năp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	naap6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*nuːb/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衲
Reading #	1/1
No.	9392
Phonetic component	內
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*nuːb/

Definitions

衲

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Compounds

• 拘攣補衲 / 拘挛补衲
• 百衲 (bǎinà)
• 百衲本 (bǎinàběn)
• 百衲琴
• 百衲綻衣 / 百衲绽衣
• 百衲衣 (bǎinàyī)
• 緋衲襖 / 绯衲袄
• 老衲 (lǎonà)
• 腥衲襖 / 腥衲袄
• 蒙頭衲被 / 蒙头衲被
• 衲僧
• 衲子
• 衲帛
• 衲師 / 衲师
• 衲臉 / 衲脸
• 衲被
• 衲被蒙頭 / 衲被蒙头
• 衲頭 / 衲头

Japanese

Kanji

衲

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): どう (dō)、のう (nō)
• Kun: ころも (koromo)

Korean

Hanja

衲 • (nap) (hangeul 납, revised nap, McCune–Reischauer nap, Yale nap)

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