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)

1. whisper
2. used as a surname

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

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Chinese

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trad.		聶
simp.		聂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niè (nie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nip⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: niè
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: nieh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
    • IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: nip⁶
    • Yale: nihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nip⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /niːp̚²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (聶, reconstructed)
Character (聶), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 娘 (12) Final: 葉 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 尼輒切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɳiᴇp̚/	/ni̯ɛp̚/	/niɛp̚/	/ɳiɛp̚/	/ɳiap̚/	/nĭɛp̚/	/njæp̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (聶, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
聶								niè								‹ nrjep ›								/*nrep/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
聶					9529					聶					盍					2					聶					/*neb/

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Japanese

Kanji

聶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: じょう (jō), にょう (nyō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: ささやく (sasayaku)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

聶 (niếp, nhiếp)

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