nì
greasy
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*nri[j]-s | nrijH | nì | oily |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.0365% of movies
2665th most common character in movies
2819th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+81A9 |
Shuowen | “膩,上肥也。从肉,貳聲。” |
Sources
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