倪

倪 U+502A, 倪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-502A ← 倩 [U+5029] CJK Unified Ideographs 倫 → [U+502B]

Translingual

Han character

倪 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人竹X山 (OHXU), four-corner 2721₇, composition ⿰亻兒)

References

• KangXi: page 109, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 792
• Dae Jaweon: page 231, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 179, character 9
• Unihan data for U+502A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		倪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倪
Large seal script L02269 L02270 Small seal script s05811
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (large seal) and Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (兒) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
掜	*rŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
誽	*rŋeː
倪	*ŋeː
蜺	*ŋeː, *ŋeː
霓	*ŋeː, *ŋeːs, *ŋeː
郳	*ŋeː
齯	*ŋeː
婗	*ŋeː
輗	*ŋeː
棿	*ŋeː
猊	*ŋeː
麑	*ŋeː
貎	*ŋeː
鯢	*ŋeː
兒	*ŋeː, *ŋje
觬	*ŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
堄	*ŋeːʔ, *ŋeːs
晲	*ŋeːʔ
睨	*ŋeːs
唲	*ŋje
隉	*ŋeːd
鶂	*ŋeːɡ
鬩	*ɦŋeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋeː): semantic 亻 + phonetic 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ní (ni²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁴, ngai⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): gê

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ní
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: nih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
    • IPA ^(key): /ni³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngai⁴, ngai⁶
    • Yale: ngàih, ngaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁴, ngai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁴, ngei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²¹/, /ŋɐi̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gê
    • Tâi-lô: gê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gee
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ge²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ge²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ge¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ge²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ge²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋei/▼

Rime
Character	倪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	五稽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋei/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋei/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɛj/
Li Rong	/ŋei/
Wang Li	/ŋiei/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*ŋˤe/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋeː/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	倪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ní
Middle Chinese	‹ ngej ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋˤe/
English	young and weak
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	倪
Reading #	1/1
No.	2736
Phonetic component	兒
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	倪
Old Chinese	/*ŋeː/

Definitions

倪

1. ^† small child
2. ^† small and weak
3. ^† origin; beginning
4. ^† bound; limit; extremity
5. ^† to differentiate
6. (Wu) I; we
7. A surname​.

Compounds

• 俾倪
• 天倪

• 旄倪

• 端倪 (duānní)

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Japanese

Kanji

倪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: げ (ge)
• Kan’on: げい (gei)
• Kun: きわ (kiwa)

Compounds

Compounds

• 天倪 (あまがつ) (amagatsu)
• 端倪 (たんげい) (tangei)

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Korean

Hanja

倪 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune-Reischauer ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倪 (nghê, hầu)

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