納

Core sense: The act of bringing something across a threshold from the outside to the inside; admittance or incorporation.

• Physical & Administrative: Official intake of goods; in administrative contexts (e.g., taxes, tributes), it denotes formal collection into a treasury or granary.

// Ritual & Social: Formal transfer of items to mark a change in status or agreement, such as bride-price (//nà zhēng* 納徵).

• Abstract & Psychological: The internalization or absorption of ideas, advice, or suggestions.

Primarily transitive.

// Contrast with 受 (//shòu//): While both can be translated as "receive," //shòu* is generally passive (the object comes to the subject), whereas 納 implies a process of admittance or an active bringing-in, particularly when crossing a threshold into a restricted space.

• Relationship to 內: In stable classical usage, 納 refers to the action (the act of bringing in) and 內 refers to the location (the inside).

Simplified variant: U+7EB3.