나

Etymology 1
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) I, the first-person singular pronoun

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) age

Etymology 1
From. Presumably existed in Old Korean, but cannot be ascertained because Old Korean pronouns were written with Chinese logograms that obscure the pronunciation.

It has been suggested since the 1950s that the basic Korean pronouns, , and (> modern ) were all formed from the same etymon via ablaut, which appears to have once been an extremely productive process in Korean, at some very ancient stage. Given the very limited data on prehistoric Korean, this hypothesis cannot be proven for sure either way.

Possibly cognate with 🇨🇬; if so, generally assumed to be a Korean loan into Japanese given the scarcity of Ryukyuan cognates.

Pronoun

 * 1) I, me; the first-person singular plain (non-polite) pronoun

Etymology 2
From ; see the main entry for more.

Etymology 3
Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

Etymology 4
Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters, when in isolation or as the first character of a word. Word-internally, they are pronounced as.

Following a language reform in the mid-twentieth century, North Koreans pronounce these characters as in all environments.