諾諾

Chinese

		to promise; to yes	to promise; to yes
trad. (諾諾)		諾	諾
simp. (诺诺)		诺	诺

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nuònuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨㄛˋ ㄋㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nok⁶ nok⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nuònuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨㄛˋ ㄋㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nuònuò
    • Wade–Giles: no⁴-no⁴
    • Yale: nwò-nwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nuohnuoh
    • Palladius: ноно (nono)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nu̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ nu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: nok⁶ nok⁶
    • Yale: nohk nohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nok⁹ nok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nog⁶ nog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɔːk̚² nɔːk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: nak nak

Rime
Character	諾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	鐸 (103)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	奴各切
Baxter	nak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/nɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/nɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nak̚/
Li Rong	/nɑk̚/
Wang Li	/nɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/nɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nuò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤak  nˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*naːɡ  naːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	諾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nuò
Middle Chinese	‹ nak ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁak/
English	agree, say yes
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	諾
Reading #	1/1
No.	10934
Phonetic component	若
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	諾
Old Chinese	/*naːɡ/

Noun

諾諾

1. (literary, onomatopoeia) Sound of agreeing submissively.

Derived terms

• 唯唯諾諾／唯唯诺诺 (wéiwéinuònuò)
• 諾諾連聲／诺诺连声 (nuònuòliánshēng)