ní
feeble
A young child 兒
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 倪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
boundary | ||
limit | ||
Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire | ||
Ni Guizhen or Ni Kwei-Tseng (1869 - 1931), mother of Song Ailing 宋藹齡|宋蔼龄[SòngAǐlíng], Song Qingling 宋慶齡|宋庆龄[SòngQìnglíng] and Song Meiling 宋美齡|宋美龄[SòngMěilíng] | ||
unfathomable |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋˤe | ngej | ní | young and weak |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3257th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+502A |
Shuowen | “倪,俾也。从人,兒聲。” |
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