Nan: nā

(1) Nan Amitabha [nā wú ē mí tuó fó]: a Buddhist term meaning to bow with palms together to show respect for or conversion to the Buddha, often added in front of the names of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

(2) Nan Wu Lao [nā mó lǎo]: a Cantonese term for folk Taoist priests who preside over the transcendence of ancestors or other folk worship activities in Taoist robes in Chinese funeral rituals.

Second tone

Na: ná

(1) 捉拿 [ zhuō ná ]: to capture; to apprehend.

(2) 擒拿 [ qín ná ]: to catch; to arrest or capture.

(3) push and take [ tuī ná ]: i.e. massage.

(4) seize [ jī ná ]: to search and arrest.

Third tone

Suffix: nǎ

(1) 猪乸命 [ zhū nǎ mìng ]: 猪乸, a dialect of the Chinese language, written as sow.

Fourth tone

Na: nà

(1) Payment [jiǎo nà] : Delivery of a prescribed amount of cash or in kind to the public. The same as pay in

(2) nà mèn] : [verb] to be puzzled: hearing him say that a long-distance caller from Shanghai was looking for him, and not being able to figure out who it was for a moment, he felt a little ~

(3) 哂纳[shěn nà] : a condescending phrase used to give a gift and to ask a person to accept it

(4) 纳入[nà rù]： 1. to subsume. Mostly used for abstract things, 2. introduced or inserted surreptitiously or without foundation

(5) Nà gòng [nà gòng] : to pay tribute