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㕯

nè

slow-tongued

Phonosemantic compound. 内 represents the sound and 口 represents the meaning. Variant of 訥.

Components
内 sound component

内  Sound component

nèi

  

inside

口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

㕯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
㕯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

㕯  

nè

slow-tongued; to stammer, to shout in triumph; the noise of shouting in battle; old variant of 訥|讷[nè]

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

矞

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nˤut

nwot

nè

slow of speech


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+356F

Shuowen

“，言之訥也。从口，从內。”


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