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怩
怩
Translingual
Han character
怩 (radical 61 心+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心尸心 (PSP), four-corner 97011, composition ⿰忄尼)
References
- KangXi: page 382, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10481
- Dae Jaweon: page 711, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2287, character 16
- Unihan data for U+6029
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
怩 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 怩
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|---|---|
| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (尼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 泥 | *niːl, *niːls |
| 屔 | *niːl |
| 苨 | *niːlʔ |
| 坭 | *niːlʔ |
| 迡 | *niːls |
| 埿 | *braːms, *niːl, *niːls |
| 旎 | *nilʔ |
| 狔 | *nilʔ |
| 抳 | *nilʔ |
| 尼 | *nil |
| 呢 | *nil |
| 怩 | *nil |
| 柅 | *nil, *nilʔ |
| 蚭 | *nil |
| 跜 | *nil |
| 秜 | *nil |
| 痆 | *rniːd |
| 昵 | *niɡ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
- Wade-Giles: nih2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
- IPA (key): /ni³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: nei4
- Yale: nèih
- Cantonese Pinyin: nei4
- IPA (key): /nei̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 怩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 娘 (12) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (17) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | Chongniu III |
| Fanqie | 女夷切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɳˠiɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɳᵚi/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/niɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɳji/ |
| Li Rong |
/nji/ |
| Wang Li |
/ni/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ni/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
ní |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 怩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
ní |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ nrij › |
| Old Chinese |
/*nr[əj]/ |
| English | ashamed |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 怩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9430 |
| Phonetic component |
尼 |
| Rime group |
脂 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
尼 |
| Old Chinese |
/*nil/ |
Definitions
怩
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Japanese
Kanji
怩
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
怩 • (ni>i) (hangeul 니>이, revised ni>i, McCune-Reischauer ni>i, Yale ni>i)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: náy
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