泥

Translingual

Han character

泥 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水尸心 (ESP), four-corner 3711₁, composition ⿰氵尼)

1. mud, mire
2. earth, clay
3. plaster

References

• KangXi: page 617, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17311
• Dae Jaweon: page 1012, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1595, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6CE5

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		泥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ní (ni²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nai⁴, nei⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): nî, nâi
• Min Nan (POJ): nî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ní
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: nih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
    • IPA ^(key): /ni³⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: nai⁴, nei⁶
    • Yale: nàih, neih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nai⁴, nei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /nɐi̯²¹/, /nei̯²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: nî, nâi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ni2, nai2
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nî
    • Tâi-lô: nî
    • IPA (Taipei): /ni²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ni¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (泥, reconstructed)
Character (泥), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 齊 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 奴低切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/nei/	/niei/	/nei/	/nei/	/nɛj/	/niei/	/nɛi/
Character (泥), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 齊 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 奴計切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/neiH/	/nieiH/	/neiH/	/neiH/	/nɛjH/	/nieiH/	/nɛiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (泥, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
泥								ní								‹ nej ›								/*C.nˤ[əj]/								mud
泥								ní								‹ nejH ›								/*nˤər(ʔ)-s/								impeded, obstructed (Lunyu)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
泥					9417					尼					脂					1					泥					/*niːl/
泥					9421					尼					脂					1					泥					/*niːls/

Usage notes

(Hakka) The nî ni5 (ni2) reading is literary, while the nâi nai5 (nai2) reading is colloquial. Readings in parentheses are Hagfa Pinyim.

References

• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

泥

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ない (nai) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: でい (dei)
• Kun: どろ (doro), なずむ (nazumu)

Noun

泥 (hiragana どろ, romaji doro)

1. mud

Derived terms

• 泥沼 (doronuma, “bog”)
• 泥仕合 (dorojiai, “mudslinging”)

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Korean

Hanja

泥 (ni, i) (hangeul 니, 이, revised ni, i, McCune-Reischauer ni, i, Yale ni, i)

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Vietnamese

Character

Readings

• Hán Việt: nê, nệ, nễ
• Nôm: nê, nơi, nè, nề, nể, nệ

References

• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)