何等なんら

Chinese

		carry; what; how carry; what; how; why; which	class; rank; grade class; rank; grade; equal to; same as; wait for; await; et cetera; and so on
trad. (何等なんら)		何なに	等ひとし
simp. #(何等なんら)		何なに	等ひとし

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héděng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄉㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ho⁴ dang²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hò-tén
• Eastern Min (BUC): hò̤-dēng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hô-téng / hô͘-tńg

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: héděng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄉㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: héděng
    • Wade–Giles: ho²-têng³
    • Yale: hé-děng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herdeeng
    • Palladius: хэдэн (xɛdɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ tɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ho⁴ dang²
    • Yale: hòh dáng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ho⁴ dang²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ho⁴ deng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː²¹ tɐŋ³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hò-tén
    • Hakka Romanization System: hoˇ den`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ho² den³
    • Sinological IPA: /ho¹¹ ten³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hò̤-dēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ho⁵³⁻³³ ^(t-)lɛiŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô-téng
    • Tâi-lô: hô-tíng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoi'deang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ho²⁴⁻²² tiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho¹³⁻²² tiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ho²⁴⁻¹¹ tiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ²³⁻³³ tiɪŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô͘-tńg
    • Tâi-lô: hôo-tńg
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ho'dngr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ²⁴⁻²² tŋ̍⁵⁵⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: ha tongX

Rime
Character	何なに	等ひとし
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	匣くしげ (33)	端はし (5)
Final (韻いん)	歌うた (94)	登とう (129)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	I	I
Fanqie	胡えびす歌うた切きり	多おお肯切きり
Baxter	ha	tongX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑ/	/təŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑ/	/təŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑ/	/təŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦa/	/təŋX/
Li Rong	/ɣɑ/	/təŋX/
Wang Li	/ɣɑ/	/təŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑ/	/təŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hé	děng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ho4	dang2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤaj  tˤəŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːl  tɯːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	何なに	等ひとし
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé	děng
Middle Chinese	‹ ha ›	‹ tongX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁaj/	/*tˁəŋʔ/
English	what	step, grade
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	何なに	等ひとし
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7458	12054
Phonetic component	可か	寺てら
Rime group	歌うた	蒸ふけ
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	何なに	等ひとし
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːl/	/*tɯːŋʔ/

Pronoun

何等なんら

1. (literary) what kind; what sort

Synonyms

• 什麼いんも樣さま／什么样 (shénmeyàng)
• 何なに許もと／何なに许 (héxǔ) (literary)
• 啥樣／啥样 (sháyàng) (regional)

 

Adverb

何等なんら

1. (literary) how; what

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 多た麼 (“how; what; so; such”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		何等なんら, 何なに其, 一いち何なに, 何なに哉, 何等なんら也, 何なに則そく
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		多た麼, 何等なんら, 何なに其
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	多た麼, 多おお
	Taiwan	多た麼, 多おお
	Malaysia	多おお
	Singapore	多た麼, 多おお
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	多た麼, 多おお
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	多おお
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	好このみ, 多おお
	Wuhan	幾いく, 幾いく樣よう, 好このみ
	Guilin	好このみ
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	多おお
	Hefei	好このみ
Cantonese	Guangzhou	幾いく, 幾いく咁
	Hong Kong	幾いく, 幾いく咁
	Yangjiang	幾いく
Gan	Nanchang	幾いく
Hakka	Meixian	幾いく
Jin	Taiyuan	多た麼, 多た來き
Northern Min	Jian'ou	幾多いくた
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	若わか夥おびただし, 若わか
Southern Min	Xiamen	偌, 偌爾仔こ, 活かつ, 活かつ欲ほし
	Quanzhou	偌, 活かつ, 活かつ欲ほし
	Zhangzhou	偌, 偌爾仔こ, 偌仔爾なんじ, 活かつ, 活かつ欲ほし
	Taipei	偌爾, 偌仔爾なんじ
	Kaohsiung	偌爾, 偌仔爾なんじ
	Penang (Hokkien)	偌
	Singapore (Hokkien)	偌
	Manila (Hokkien)	偌
	Chaozhou	若わか
	Singapore (Teochew)	若わか
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	幾いく
Wu	Shanghai	多少たしょう, 幾いく化か
	Suzhou	幾いく化か
	Wenzhou	幾いく倈, 幾いく恁
Xiang	Changsha	幾いく, 幾多いくた, 好このみ
	Shuangfeng	幾いく, 好このみ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
何なに	等ひとし
なん Grade: 2	ら Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
何なんら

Kanji in this term
何なに	等ひとし
なに Grade: 2	ら Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
何なんら

Etymology

The なんら (nanra) reading shifts from the なにら (nanira) reading.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) な​んら [náꜜǹrà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• (Tokyo) なんら [nàńrá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [nã̠nɾa̠]

• (Tokyo) な​にら [náꜜnìrà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [na̠ɲ̟iɾa̠]

Adverb

何なに(なん)等ひとし(ら) or 何なに(なに)等ひとし(ら) • (nanra or nanira) 

1. (chiefly in the negative) (not) in any way, (none) whatsoever

   Synonyms: 何なにも, 少すこしも

   何なに(なん)ら関せき(かか)わりがない

   nanra kakawari ga nai

   not involved in any way