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奈 means 'Nara'

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Strokes : 8    Frequency: 786   JLPT: N1    Usefulness: 5    Study set: 5-5    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 11 words   Used in 19 words   Used in 4734 names   Component in 2 kanji (0 Jōyō)
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Common readings
On
   ナ
Additional readings
On    ナイ   ダイ
Kun    いかん   からなし
Notes
Origin of both hiragana な and katakana ナ.
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A hiragana was created from 奈. This kanji helps people talk about hellish situations, but that’s not why a book about Kanagawa is subtitled “Towns That Suck, Towns That People Hate.” The Jetsons apparently influenced 8th-century Nara architecture. There have been at least 17 kanji renderings of the name なら. Find out about all these topics and much more in this image-rich essay.
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Most useful words by reading
In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 奈 is used 3 times, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 奈 is used 16 times, read 1 way.
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な ら 1
noun
Nara (city)
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An additional 3 less common words include 奈 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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奈
ナ    Nara   
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大
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
人
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
示
ジ   シ   しめす to show   
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二
ニ   ふたつ    ふた two   
小
ショウ   こ-    お-    ちいさい small   
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