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See also: 尿

Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水弓一一 (ENMM), four-corner 37127)

  1. drown
  2. submerge in water
  3. indulge

References

  • KangXi: page 641, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17990
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1048, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1710, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6EBA

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*neːwʔ
*njewɢ
*njewɢ, *neːwɢ
*njewɢ
*rneːwɢ, *rnaːwɢ
*neːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *njewɢ, *neːwɢ) : semantic  (water) + phonetic  (OC *njewɢ) – water, urinate.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ni⁵¹/
Harbin /ni⁵³/
Tianjin /ni⁵³/
Jinan /ȵi²¹/
Qingdao /ni⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ni³¹²/
Xi'an /ni²¹/
Xining /mji²¹³/
Yinchuan /ni¹³/
Lanzhou /ȵi¹³/
Ürümqi /ȵi²¹³/
Wuhan /ni²¹³/
Chengdu /ȵie³¹/
/ȵi³¹/
Guiyang /ni²¹/
Kunming /ni³¹/
Nanjing /liʔ⁵/
Hefei /liəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /niəʔ²/
Pingyao /ȵiʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /niəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ȵiɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /ȵiəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ȵiəʔ²/
Wenzhou /ȵai²¹³/
Hui Shexian /ni²²/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ȵi²⁴/
Xiangtan /ȵi²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /nit̚¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /nek̚²/
Nanning /nek̚²²/
Hong Kong /nek̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lik̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /niʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ni²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /nek̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /niɔk̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (38) (8)
Final () (107) (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵɨɐk̚/ /nek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiɐk̚/ /nek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑiɑk̚/ /nɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵɨak̚/ /nɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/ȵiak̚/ /nek̚/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭak̚/ /niek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ak̚/ /niek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ruò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
niào
Middle
Chinese
‹ nek › ‹ newH ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˤewk/ /*kə.nˤewk-s/
English to sink in water urine

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10948 10952
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njewɢ/ /*neːwɢ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 人溺己溺
  • 便溺
  • 大水沖溺大水冲溺
  • 己飢己溺己饥己溺
  • 惑溺
  • 扶危拯溺
  • 拯危扶溺
  • 拯溺
  • 拯溺扶危
  • 拯溺救焚
  • 拯溺濟危拯溺济危
  • 授手援溺
  • 援溺振渴
  • 撒溺
  • 救焚拯溺
  • 桀溺
  • 沉溺 (chénnì)
  • 沒溺没溺
  • 沮溺
  • 溲溺
  • 溺信
  • 溺器
  • 溺志
  • 溺愛溺爱 (nì'ài)
  • 溺斃溺毙
  • 溺死 (nìsǐ)
  • 溺水 (nìshuǐ)
  • 溺窩子溺窝子
  • 溺職溺职
  • 溺谷
  • 溺途
  • 焚溺
  • 耽溺
  • 見溺不救见溺不救
  • 貓溺猫溺
  • 道在屎溺
  • 鍾溺钟溺
  • 阿金溺銀阿金溺银
  • 陷溺

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(nik>ik, nyo>yo) (hangeul >익, >, revised nik>ik, nyo>yo, McCune-Reischauer nik>ik, nyo>yo, Yale nik>ik, nyo>yo)

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