奴

奴 (radical 38, 女+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 女水 (VE), four-corner 4744₀, composition ⿰女又)

• 怒 努

• ぬ
• ヌ

• KangXi: page 254, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6039
• Dae Jaweon: page 517, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1024, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5974

Historical forms of the character 奴
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 女 (“woman”) + 又 (“hand”) – a hand capturing and ordering a woman around. 女 (OC *naʔ, *nas) may also be phonetic.

Some oracle bone script forms (not depicted above) are pictographic (象形) , showing a person (probably a woman) with hands crossed at the back, as opposed to 女 which depicts a woman clasping her hands in front of the body.

奴

1. slave; servant
2. (polite) I
3. (derogatory) a person associated with a particular identity or trait
4. to enslave

• (I):

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. a thing, an object; (derogatory, familiar) a person

• Go-on: ぬ (nu)^{←ぬ (nu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ど (do, Jōyō)^{←ど (do, historical)}
• Kun: やっこ (yakko, 奴); やつ (yatsu, 奴); め (me, 奴)
• Nanori: ぬい (nui)

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ja̠t͡sɨᵝ]

奴 (hiragana やつ, katakana ヤツ, rōmaji yatsu)

1. (colloquial, impolite) fellow, chap, guy

奴 (hiragana やつ, katakana ヤツ, rōmaji yatsu)

1. (colloquial, impolite) he, she
   • 1988 July 30 [Jul 25 1984], Fujiko F. Fujio, “おれ、夕ゆう子こ [I, Yūko]”, in ポストの中の明日 [Post-Mid-Tomorrow] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 2), volume 2 (fiction), 10th edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 65:

     解 (かい)説 (せつ)者 (しゃ)はたしかに中 (なか)身 (み)まで女だったと断 (だん)言 (げん)した。きくなり、おれはヤツをぶんなぐった。

     Kaisetsusha wa tashika ni nakami made onna datta to dangenshita. Kiku nari, ore wa yatsu o bunnagutta.

     The commentator asserted that all my ins and outs had completely turned female. Upon hearing that, I just knocked him to the ground.

• This is an example of a word that can be spelled with katakana to convey an informal conversational tone, as ヤツ.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ja̠k̚ko̞]

奴 (hiragana やっこ, rōmaji yakko)

1. servant, valet, footman

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [me̞]

奴 (hiragana め, rōmaji -me)

1. Derogatory suffix attached to people's names or words that refer to people, animals, etc.

   ばか奴 (め)！

   Baka-me!

   Idiot!

   • Леонид Андреев (Leonid Andrejev) (translator 森鴎外 (Mori Ōgai)), 犬 (Кусака (Kusaka))

     「来 (こ)いといったら来 (こ)い。シュッチュカ奴 (め)。馬 (ば)鹿 (か)な奴 (やつ)だ。己 (おの)れはどうもしやしない。」

     “Koi to ittara koi. Shutchuka-me. Baka na yatsu da. Onore wa dōmo shi ya shinai.”

     "If I say come, come. Silly Zhuchka. You fool. I won't do anything to you."

奴 • (no) (hangeul 노)

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奴 (nô, no, nó, nọ)

1. (colloquial) he, she, it

• Chữ Nôm.
• This is the common form of this character. The regular form is 伮.
• The term is de facto used to refer to any animal (including the human) in the third person, in a disrespectful manner. The use of the term to translate the English it, or to refer to an inanimate object, is rather artificial, and mostly found in awkward (but common) translation of other languages.

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