那
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
That — pointing at a person or thing further away; at the start of a sentence also 'then, in that case'. 那是谁? 'who is that?'. Like 这, it normally takes a measure word before a noun: 那个人 'that person'. 那里 or 那儿 means 'there'. Keep it apart from the question word 哪 nǎ 'which': third tone, with 口 on the left.
Đại từ chỉ định chỉ người hay vật ở xa: kia, đó, ấy; ở đầu câu còn có nghĩa “vậy thì”. Ví dụ: 那是谁? (kia là ai?). Cũng như 这, đứng trước danh từ thường phải có lượng từ: 那个人 (người kia), 那本书 (quyển sách đó). 那里, 那儿 là “ở đó”. Đừng nhầm với từ để hỏi 哪 nǎ (nào), đọc thanh 3 và có thêm bộ khẩu 口 bên trái.
PronounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (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 “那” mean?
That — pointing at a person or thing further away; at the start of a sentence also 'then, in that case'. 那是谁? 'who is that?'. Like 这, it normally takes a measure word before a noun: 那个人 'that person'. 那里 or 那儿 means 'there'. Keep it apart from the question word 哪 nǎ 'which': third tone, with 口 on the left.
Is “那” formal or informal?
那 is generally neutral.