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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)

  1. shy, timid, bashful
  2. look ashamed

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

simp. and trad.
 怩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 怩
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (尼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

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;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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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Compounds

  • 忸忸怩怩
  • 忸怩作態／忸怩作态

Japanese

Kanji

怩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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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

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