那 (nà): (specifier) that, the, those (colloquial pr.), (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations), then (in that case)
那 (nà) is a Chinese character meaning “(specifier) that.” Classified as HSK Level 1 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 阝 (structural). It ranks #38 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- (specifier) that
- the
- those (colloquial pr.)
- (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations)
- then (in that case)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 那
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 那么pronoun/conjunction | nà me | like that | 2 |
| 那个pronoun | nà ge | that one | 1 |
| 那些pronoun | nà xiē | those | 1 |
| 那样pronoun | nà yàng | that kind | 2 |
| 那里pronoun | nà li | there | 1 |
| 那儿pronoun | nà r | there | 1 |
| 那边pronoun | nà bian | over there | 1 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 那天 | nà tiān | that day |
| 那种 | nà zhǒng | that kind of |
| 那时pronoun | nà shí | then |
| 那会儿pronoun | nà huì r | at that time (in the past or the future) |
| 亚利桑那州 | yà lì sāng nà zhōu | Arizona |
| 哈瓦那proper-noun | hā wǎ nà | Havana, capital of Cuba |
| 亚利桑那proper-noun | yà lì sāng nà | Arizona |
| 辛辛那提proper-noun | xīn xīn nà tí | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 巴塞罗那proper-noun | bā sài luó nà | Barcelona, Spain |
| 一刹那noun | yī chà nà | a moment |
| 那不勒斯proper-noun | nà bù lè sī | Napoli, capital of Campania region of Italy |
| 热那亚proper-noun | rè nà yà | Genoa |
| 那么着adverb | nà me zhe | (do sth) that way |
| 关塔那摩湾 | guān tǎ nà mó wān | Guantanamo Bay (in Cuba) |
| 刹那noun | chà nà | an instant (Sanskrit: ksana) |
那 appears in 100 compound words: 42 as the first character, 28 as the last, and 30 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 那 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (8)
Showing 5 of 8 idioms containing 那.
Example Sentences
那时候我们还年轻，对未来充满了无限的憧憬和希望。
Nà shíhou wǒmen hái hěn niánqīng, duì wèilái chōngmǎn le wúxiàn de chōngjǐng hé xīwàng.
At that time, we were still very young, full of infinite longing and hope for the future.
...在战斗的九把刀─《功夫》是不是你还期待的那个模样?
. . . zài zhàn dǒu de jiǔ bǎ dāo gōng fū shì bù shì nǐ hái qī dài de nà gè mó yàng ?
... The Nine Knives in Battle - Is "Kung Fu" the look you are still looking forward to?
没有你想的那么光鲜 有些冬奥选手已私下在做一事
méi yǒu nǐ xiǎng de nà má guāng xiān yǒu xiē dōng ào xuǎn shǒu yǐ sī xià zài zuò yī shì
Not as glamorous as you think Some Winter Olympians are already doing something in private
(专题)致自由!盘点11部那些年不能说的故事
( zhuān tí ) zhì zì yóu ! pán diǎn 1 1 bù nà xiē nián bù néng shuō de gù shì
To freedom! Take stock of the 11 stories that cannot be told in those years
不只换轮胎那么简单:比亚迪详解澳洲车型本地化调校细节...
bù zhī huàn lún tāi nà má jiǎn dān : bǐ yà dí xiáng jiě ào zhōu chē xíng běn dì huà diào jiào xì jié . . .
It's not as simple as changing tires: BYD explains the details of localized tuning of Australian models in detail...
你还是曾经那个少年!苏翊鸣斩获中国队首金
nǐ hái shì céng jīng nā gě shǎo nián ! sū 翊 míng zhǎn huò zhōng guó duì shǒu jīn
You're still the same teenager! Su Yiming wins China's first gold.
你好！你还在那里吗？
Nǐhǎo! nǐ hái zài nàli ma?
Hello! Are you still there?
是吗？那说来听听啊！
Shì ma? nà shuō lái tīng tīng ā!
Well, say it, then!
那是幢高楼，不是吗？
Nà shì zhuàng gāolóu, bù shì ma?
That is a high building, is it not?
我为什么一定要那么做？
Wǒ wèishénme yīdìngyào nàme zuò?
Why do I have to do that?
Character Family
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