拿
ná HSK1

take

拿 ná
take verb
to hold in one's hand, to take, or to carry

请帮我拿一下外套。

qǐng bāng wǒ ná yī​xià wài​tào.

Please hold my coat for a second.

object marker preposition
a grammatical particle used to mark a direct object, similar to 把 bǎ

别拿这种事开玩笑。

bié ná zhè zhǒng shì kāi​wán​xiào.

Don't joke about this kind of thing.

capture verb
to seize, catch, or apprehend

那个小偷在逃跑时被当场拿住了。

nà gè xiǎo​tōu zài táo​pǎo shí bèi dāng​chǎng ná​zhù le.

The thief was caught on the spot while trying to escape.

Frequency
Character
Written text
645th most common 319.4 per million
Movie subtitles
223rd most common 791.1 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
964.7 per million appears in 94% of films
Written text
260.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
拏
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+62FF

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)