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See also: 傩

儺 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+19, 21 strokes, cangjie input 人廿人土 (OTOG), four-corner 20214, composition ⿰亻難)

  1. rich
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 121, character 42
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1317
  • Dae Jaweon: page 257, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 238, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+513A
trad. 儺
simp. 傩
alternative forms 難／难
𠹈
𩙎
𩘾
Historical forms of the character 儺

Transcribed ancient scripts

L32393

L08510

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Old Chinese
儺 *naːl
臡 *naːl, *neːl, *njeːl
嘆 *n̥ʰaːn, *n̥ʰaːns
灘 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns, *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
擹 *n̥ʰaːn
攤 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːnʔ, *naːns
癱 *n̥ʰaːn
歎 *n̥ʰaːns
難 *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns
暵 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns
熯 *hnaːnʔ, *hnaːns, *njanʔ
漢 *hnaːns
戁 *rnaːnʔ, *njanʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *naːl): semantic 亻 + phonetic 難 (OC *n̥ʰaːn, *naːns).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-n/t (“ill, pain, difficult, evil spirit”).

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 儺 儺 儺
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		nuó nuó nuó
Middle
Chinese 		‹ na › ‹ na › ‹ naX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nˁar/ /*nˁar/ /*nˁarʔ/
English expel demons rich, ample, fine, beautiful rich, beautiful

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 儺
Reading # 1/1
No. 4886
Phonetic
component 		暵
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		那
Old
Chinese 		/*naːl/

儺

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to walk gracefully; to move to the measured steps
  2. Used in 猗儺／猗傩 (“beautiful; graceful”).
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to expel demons of illness; to exorcise
  4. Nuo ceremony

儺

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. exorcism
Kanji in this term
儺
な
Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 儺 / 傩 (na).

儺(な) • (na) 

  1. driving away the gods of disease

    • 1972 [1688], Kaibara Chiken, Nihon saijiki [Japan almanac]‎[1], page 140:

      かゝ(か)る虚(きょ)誕(たん)の説(せつ)をば、その是(ぜ)非(ひ)をあらそはんも口(くち)おしければやみぬ。されば儺(な)は疫(えき)をおいはらふことなり。
      Kakaru kyotan no setsu o ba, sono zehi o arasowan mo kuchioshikereba yaminu. Sareba na wa eki o oiharau koto nari.
      It would be a pity to try to prove such a false exaggerated theory right or wrong, so I'll stop. So na rituals are to drive out the epidemic.

儺 (eum 나 (na))

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儺: Hán Nôm readings: na

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