乃 (nǎi)
To be; therefore (literary/formal).
How 乃 is written
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- ㇎ — N/A
- Traditional
- 乃
- Simplified
- 乃 (unchanged)
Components
- ㇎ N/A
- 丿 bend
Common words using 乃
- 乃至 nǎizhì
- and even; to go so far as to
- 木乃伊 mùnǎiyī
- mummy (preserved corpse)
- 乃是 nǎishì
- to be
- 乃東 nǎidōng
- Nêdong county, Tibetan: Sne gdong rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet
- 乃爾 nǎiěr
- thus; like this
- 吉木乃 jímùnǎi
- Jeminay county or Jéminey nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[A1 le4 tai4 di4 qu1], Xinjiang
- 安乃近 ānnǎijìn
- analgin
- 康乃馨 kāngnǎixīn
- carnation or clove pink; Dianthus caryophyllus (botany)
乃 in a sentence
失敗乃成功之母。
Shībài nǎi chénggōng zhī mǔ.
“Failure is the mother of success.”
How common is 乃?
乃 is the 1,163rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 91.4% of all running text.
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