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聶

聶

See also: 聂

Translingual

Han character

聶 (radical 128 耳+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十尸十十 (SJSJJ), four-corner 10441, composition ⿱耳聑)

References

  • KangXi: page 969, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29179
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2796, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8076

Chinese

trad. 聶
simp. 聂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (聶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
攝 *neːb, *ʔnjeb
聶 *neb
鑷 *neb
躡 *neb
襵 *nteb, *ʔnjeb
懾 *ʔnjeb
囁 *ʔnjeb, *njeb
欇 *ʔnjeb, *n̥ʰjeb, *ɦnjeb, *hnjeb
灄 *hnjeb
顳 *njeb
讘 *njeb

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 聶
Mandarin Beijing /niɛ⁵¹/
Harbin /niɛ⁵³/
Tianjin /nie⁵³/
Jinan /ȵiə²¹/
Qingdao /niə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /niɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /niɛ²¹/
Xining /ȵi⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /nie¹³/
Lanzhou /ȵiə¹³/
Ürümqi /ȵiɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /nie²¹³/
Chengdu /ȵie³¹/
Guiyang /nie²¹/
Kunming /niɛ³¹/
Nanjing /lieʔ⁵/
Hefei /liɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /niəʔ²/
Pingyao /ȵiʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /niaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ȵiaʔ¹/
Suzhou /ȵiəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ȵiəʔ²/
Wenzhou /ȵi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /neʔ²¹/
Tunxi /ȵia⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ȵie²⁴/
Xiangtan /ȵie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ȵiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ŋiap̚¹/
Taoyuan /ŋiɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nip̚²/
Nanning /nip̚²²/
Hong Kong /nip̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /liap̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /niɛʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /niɛ²⁴/
/ŋiɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /niap̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /nit̚⁵/
Rime
Character 聶
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 娘 (12)
Final (韻) 葉 (156)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 尼輒切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɳˠiᴇp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɳᵚiɛp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /niæp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɳjiap̚/
Li
Rong		 /njɛp̚/
Wang
Li		 /nĭɛp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ni̯ɛp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 niè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 聶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 niè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nrjep ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nrep/
English promise; whisper in one"s ear

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 聶
Reading # 1/1
No. 9529
Phonetic
component		 聶
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 聶
Old
Chinese		 /*neb/

Verb

聶

  1. to whisper

Proper noun

聶

  1. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

聶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

聶 • ‎(seop) (hangeul 섭, revised seop, McCune-Reischauer sŏp, Yale sep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

聶 (nhiếp, niếp)

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