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泥

ní, nì

mud

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 尼 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

尼 sound component

尼  Sound component

ní

  

Buddhist nun

Evolution

泥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
泥 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
泥 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
泥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

泥  

ní

mud, mire; earth, clay; plaster; mud; clay; paste; pulp

泥  

nì

restrained

Most common words with 泥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

泥

mud

水泥

cement

泥土

earth

泥巴

mud

土豆泥

mashed potato

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.nˤ[əj]

nej

ní

mud

*nˤər(ʔ)-s

nejH

ní

impeded, obstructed (Lunyu)


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 14.3040% of movies

1707th most common character in movies

1499th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+6CE5

Shuowen

“泥，水。出北地郁郅北蠻中。从水，尼聲。”


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