to be / thus / so / therefore / then / only / thereupon

A poltergeist. The poltergeist is wearing a hood and stretching out his arms as he is moving to the right hand side.
variant of 乃[nai3]

乃 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]

Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).

Characters with 乃 as component

variant of 朵[duo3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a tulip bud.

Doggy Dog (du) gets two new piercings in the observatory (o3). The piercer's table consists of a table (几) with four Christmas trees (木) as legs. The piercer is just about to pierce Doggy Dog's earlobes (朵) with tulip buds (朵).
meaningful / significant

= + : Mnemonic symbol: to do a meaningful job like working with disabled people or the elderly.

The poltergeist (乃) decided to change his life by switching to a meaningful (隽) job. Nowadays he is helping people like Zeus (ju) to drive out the sparrows (隹) out of the anthill's bathroom (an4) by scaring them away.
incense tripod
little (dialect)
blessings
neon (chemistry)
see 芋艿[yu4 nai3]
(old) neodymium / neptunium (chemistry)

Words with 乃

equivalent to either 是[shi4] or 就是[jiu4 shi4]
and even / to go so far as to
analgin (loanword)
Nêdong county, Tibetan: Sne gdong rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet
Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)
thus / like this
Jeminay county or Jéminey nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[A1 le4 tai4 di4 qu1], Xinjiang
Jeminay county or Jéminey nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区[A1 le4 tai4 di4 qu1], Xinjiang
Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)
Nêdong county, Tibetan: Sne gdong rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet

Sentences with 乃

zhè
tia̅n
shàng
nǎi
shì
shén
xia̅n
jìng
jiè