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Kanji Detail for 諾 - "consent, accept, agree"

  • Meaning

    諾 means "consent, accept, agree."

    1. Consent - To agree; to approve.

    2. Accept - To receive willingly; to say yes.

    3. Promise - A commitment to do something.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    consent; assent; agreement

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    promise; assent, approve

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to consent; to promise; (literary) yes!

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to promise; to approve, to assent to

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A responding word. Quick response is called 唯. Slow response is called 諾. | Promising someone with words is also called 諾. Such as saying 不輕然諾 (not lightly agreeing). The Chu proverb says "Getting a hundred catties of gold is not as good as getting one promise from Ji Bu." Appears in "Records of the Grand Historian." Today people say 金諾 (golden promise), based on this. | The seal on documents is called 諾. Such as signing is called 畫諾 (marking approval).
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