哪
nǎ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Which: a question word for picking one from several. A measure word or a number normally follows it: 哪个 'which one', 哪本书 'which book', 哪天 'which day'; 哪国人 asks someone's nationality. Add 儿 or 里 and it asks 'where': 哪儿, 哪里. It is said with the dipping third tone; falling 那 nà means 'that'.
Nào: từ để hỏi, dùng khi chọn một trong nhiều người hay vật. Phía sau thường là lượng từ hoặc số đếm: 哪个 (cái nào), 哪本书 (quyển sách nào), 哪天 (hôm nào). Khác tiếng Việt, 哪 đứng trước danh từ. Thêm 儿 hoặc 里 thành “ở đâu”: 哪儿, 哪里. Đọc thanh 3; 那 thanh 4 nghĩa là “kia, đó”.
PronounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “哪” mean?
Which: a question word for picking one from several. A measure word or a number normally follows it: 哪个 'which one', 哪本书 'which book', 哪天 'which day'; 哪国人 asks someone's nationality. Add 儿 or 里 and it asks 'where': 哪儿, 哪里. It is said with the dipping third tone; falling 那 nà means 'that'.
Is “哪” formal or informal?
哪 is generally neutral.