拿 (ná): to take, to hold
拿 (ná) is a Chinese character meaning “to take, to hold.” Classified as HSK Level 2 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 合 (phonetic) and 手 (semantic). It ranks #645 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 拿 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to take, to hold
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拿走 | ná zǒu | to take away |
| 加拿大 | jiā ná dà | Canada |
| 拿下 | ná xià | to arrest |
| 拿到 | ná dào | to get |
| 拿手 | ná shǒu | expert in |
| 拿破仑 | ná pò lún | variant of 拿破崙|拿破仑[Na2 po4 lun2] |
| 巴拿马 | bā ná mǎ | Panama |
| 桑拿 | sāng ná | (loanword) sauna |
| 蒙大拿 | méng dà ná | Montana, US state |
| 捉拿 | zhuō ná | to arrest |
| 拿撒勒 | ná sǎ lè | Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine) |
| 拿手好戏 | ná shǒu hǎo xì | the role an actor plays best (idiom) |
| 缉拿 | jī ná | to arrest |
| 拿骚 | ná sāo | Nassau, capital of The Bahamas |
| 拿出 | ná chū | to take out |
拿 appears in 85 compound words: 47 as the first character, 20 as the last, and 33 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 拿 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (9)
Showing 8 of 9 idioms containing 拿.
Example Sentences
请拿好您的行李，下车时别忘了检查。
Qǐng ná hǎo nín de xíngli, xià chē shí bié wàng le jiǎnchá.
Please hold onto your luggage; don't forget to check when getting off.
加拿大航空因安全局势暂停墨西哥巴亚尔塔港营运
jiā ná dà háng kōng yīn ān quán jú shì zàn tíng mò xī gē bā yà ěr tǎ gǎng yíng yùn
Air Canada suspended operations in the port of Vallarta, Mexico due to the security situation
美国男子冰球击败加拿大 1980年以来首夺冬奥金牌
měi guó nán zǐ bīng qiú jī bài jiā ná dà 1 9 8 0 nián yǐ lái shǒu duó dōng ào jīn pái
U.S. men's ice hockey beats Canada to win Winter Olympic gold medal for the first time since 1980
苏翊鸣:能为中国代表团拿下首金,意义比任何事情都重..
sū 翊 míng néng wéi zhōng guó dài biǎo tuán ná xià shǒu jīn , yì yì bǐ rèn hé shì qíng dū chóng . .
Su Yiming: It means more than anything to get the first gold for the Chinese delegation...
冬奥会|冰壶男子循环赛:中国队不敌加拿大队
dōng ào huì bīng hú nán zǐ xún huán sài zhōng guó duì bù dí jiā ná dà duì
Winter Olympics | Men's Curling Round Robin: China Falls to Canada
加拿大国家电视塔“红装”庆春节
jiā ná dà guó jiā diàn shì tǎ hóng zhuāng qìng chūn jié
Canada's CN Tower Dons Red Attire to Celebrate Chinese New Year
能不能请你拿着这端？
Néng bù néng qǐng nǐ ná zhe zhè duān?
Will you please hold this edge?
你能帮我拿这个行李箱吗？
Nǐ néng bāng wǒ ná zhège xínglixiāng ma?
Will you please help me carry this suitcase?
你能拿到架子上的书吗？
Nǐ néng ná dào jiàzi shàng de shū ma?
Can't you reach the book on the shelf?
你能派人拿一些衣服，好吗？
Nǐ néng pài rén ná yīxiē yīfu, hǎo ma?
Could you send someone up to pick up some laundry?
Character Family
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