The kanji 那 generally conveys the meaning of "that" or "what". It often indicates a place or a thing that is far away from the speaker, similar to the English "that" or "there." It can also be used as a pronoun or in names.

・On-yomi (音読み): na（ナ） ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): None, or rarely used in isolation as a native Japanese word.

⚫︎ あそこにあるのは何ですか。あれは那ですか？ Translation: What is over there? Is that it? ⚫︎ 那須（なす） Translation: Nasu (a place name in Japan). ⚫︎ 那覇（なは） Translation: Naha (a city name in Okinawa).

The kanji 那 is a phonetic-semantic compound. The left side is a radical called 阝 (also written as 邑, meaning "town" or "city"). The right side is a phonetic component, "内" (nai, meaning "inside"). Combining these elements, 那 originally might have denoted a place name or a place "inside" some boundary. Over time, the meaning expanded to encompass the sense of "that" or "there," likely due to its use in place names that were located some distance away.