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누	U+B204, 누 HANGUL SYLLABLE NU

Composition:

뇨 ←	→ 눠
누눅 눆 눇 눈 눉 눊 눋 눌 눍 눎 눏 눐 눑 눒 눓 눔 눕 눖 눗 눘 눙 눚 눛 눜 눝 눞 눟

Korean

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	nu
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	nu
McCune–Reischauer^?	nu
Yale Romanization^?	nwu

Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

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僂:
(MC reading: 僂 (MC luw|ljuX|luwH))
嘍:
(MC reading: 嘍 (MC luw|luwX))
壘: rampart
(eumhun reading: 진 누 (jin nu))
(MC reading: 壘 (MC lwijX))
婁:
(MC reading: 婁 (MC lju|luw))
屢: often, frequently; many
(eumhun reading: 창 누 (chang nu))
(MC reading: 屢 (MC ljuH))
嶁:
(MC reading: 嶁 (MC ljuX|luwX))
慺:
(MC reading: 慺 (MC lju|luw|ljuX))
楼:
(MC reading: 楼)
樓: building of two or more stories
(eumhun reading: 다락 누 (darak nu))
(MC reading: 樓 (MC luw))
淚: tear; cry
(eumhun reading: 눈물 누 (nunmul nu))
(MC reading: 淚 (MC lwijH))
漏: leak
(eumhun reading: 샐 누 (sael nu))
(MC reading: 漏 (MC luwH))
瘻:
(MC reading: 瘻 (MC lju|luwH))
累: tired; implicate, involve; bother
(eumhun reading: 묶을 누 (mukkeul nu))
(MC reading: 累 (MC ljweX|ljweH))
縷:
(MC reading: 縷 (MC ljuX))
耨:
(MC reading: 耨 (MC nuwH|nowk))
耬:
(MC reading: 耬 (MC luw))
蔞:
(MC reading: 蔞 (MC lju|luw|ljuX))
螻:
(MC reading: 螻 (MC luw))
褸:
(MC reading: 褸 (MC luw|ljuX))
鏤:
(MC reading: 鏤 (MC lju|luwH))
陋:
(MC reading: 陋 (MC luwH))
髏: skull
(eumhun reading: 해골 누 (haegol nu))
(MC reading: 髏 (MC luw))

It has been suggested since the 1950s that the basic Korean pronouns 나 (na, “I; me”)Category:Middle Korean terms with redundant transliterations#누, 너 (ne, “you”)Category:Middle Korean terms with redundant transliterations#누, and 누 (nwu, “who”)Category:Middle Korean terms with redundant transliterations#누 (> modern 누구 (nugu)) 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.^[1]^[2] Given the very limited data on prehistoric Korean, this hypothesis cannot be proven for sure either way.

In Middle Korean, the pronoun only had an interrogative sense and did not mean "somebody" as in Modern Korean. The word for "somebody" was 아모 (amwo)Category:Middle Korean terms with redundant transliterations#누 > Modern 아무 (amu).

Case	Form
Isolated	누〮 (nwú)Category:Middle Korean terms with redundant transliterations#누
Nominative	뉘〮 (nwúy)Category:Middle Korean terms with redundant transliterations#누 from 누〮이〮
Accusative	눌〯 (nwǔ-l)Category:Middle Korean terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#누, 누〮를〮 (nwú-lúl)Category:Middle Korean terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#누, 누〯를〮 (nwǔ-lúl)Category:Middle Korean terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#누
Genitive	뉘〯 (nwǔy)Category:Middle Korean terms with redundant transliterations#누 from 누〮의〮

The Middle Korean pronouns have an irregular pitch inflection otherwise unusual in the language, and the origin of which is unknown.

↑ 이근수 [igeunsu] (1971), “母(모)音(음)의 意(의)味(미)交(교)替(체)의 範(범)疇(주)中(중)期(기)國(국)語(어)를 中(중)心(심)으로 [Categories of semantic vowel alternation: Focusing on Middle Korean]”, in Gugeo gungmunhak, volume 54, pages 93—132
↑ 이근수 [igeunsu] (1975), “Ablaut 硏(연)究(구) [A study of ablaut]”, in Eomunnonjip, volume 10, pages 85—100