泥 · ní
mud, mire; earth, clay; plaster
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
mud, mire; earth, clay; plaster
- Mandarin
- ní
- Cantonese
- nai4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 泥 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
デイ ナイ ニョウ デツ ネチ どろ ひじ なずむKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 니
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
- 이
- KS X 1001 (0)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kVietnamese ↗ · provisional property
lầy ne nè né nê nề nể nễ nệ nơiForm & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6CE5
- Radical
- 水 · 85
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 泥
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 尼 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 尼聲
Line 3501 · ⿰氵尼 · 尼聲 · source reference 4101250
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- nej · 奴低 反切 · #314
- Middle Chinese
- nejH · 奴計 反切 · #2381
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 2967 · nej = 蟹開四平齊泥 · nejH = 蟹開四去齊泥
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- ní
- kCantonese
- nai4
- kDefinition
- mud, mire; earth, clay; plaster
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 85.5
- kGradeLevel
- 1
- kTGH
- 2013:1258
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- ní,nì,nǐ,niè,nìng 31595.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- ní 0826.150 · nì 0829.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- ní 264.130 · nì 265.120
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- ní(308)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- ní粵nai4 nì粵nei6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 奴低 奴計
- Kangxi positions
- 0617.110
- Guangyun positions
- 091.30 374.58
- GSR references
- 0563d
- Cangjie
- ESP
- Four-corner
- 3711.1