I CHING LEXICON nai3 R#:4 Strokes:1,2 Wade/Giles:nai3 Freq:31 (prtcl.) but, is, also, then, however; (verb) to be Fenn: but, is, also, then, however. Giles: #8113, A particle, conjunctive and disjunctive; thereupon; accordingly; in that case; now; so; however; but; if; namely; to wit. Sometimes = lo! it is, or was. Used as a possessive pronoun; your; their. That, those. Also read: ai3 in ai3ai3 , the chant of a boatman keeping time with his oar; the sounds of a fisherman flinging his nets. Karlgren: #648, (1) then, thereupon; yet, but, however; (2)you, your (analysis uncertain) Legge: to be; or wu2nai3... hu3 or yu2 , is it not? NPCED nai3 ; a conjunctive and disjunctive particle with a variety of meanings . Wieger: #19A, A primitive. A difficulty of breathing; any difficulty in general...It is intended to represent the air curling to make its way through the wind-pipe. A sigh, a cry. This character, or rather the sound that is written nai3 , is in style an important connective particle, a fa1sheng1zhi1ci2 , as say the Chinese etymologists; the conjunctions not being meaning characters, but exclamations to make the hearer understand, how that which one is to say, is connected with that which one has just said... H1 COTD H1 COTD H1 L6 WY H1 L6 WY H2 COTD H2 COTD H3 L2 H3 L2 Image H9 COTD

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