nì
intimate
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 尼 represents the sound. Simplified form of 暱.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*n<r>ik | nrit | nì | close, intimate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.9542% of movies
3086th most common character in movies
4089th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6635 |
Shuowen | “暱，日近也。从日，匿聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘私降暱燕。’昵，暱或从尼。” |
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