妮

妮 U+59AE, 妮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59AE ← 妭 [U+59AD] CJK Unified Ideographs 妯 → [U+59AF]

Translingual

Han character

妮 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 女尸心 (VSP), four-corner 4741₁, composition ⿰女尼)

Derived characters

• 𦲁, 𡌰

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 257, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6123
• Dae Jaweon: page 522, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1041, character 2
• Unihan data for U+59AE

Chinese

trad.		妮
simp. #		妮

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 尼 (OC *nil).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nī, ní

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧ, ㄋㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nei⁴
• Jin (Wiktionary): nieh⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nī
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ni
    • Wade–Giles: ni¹
    • Yale: nī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nhi
    • Palladius: ни (ni)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nīr
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nir
    • Wade–Giles: ni¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: nīr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nhiel
    • Palladius: нир (nir)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /niə̯ɻ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ní
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ní
    • Wade–Giles: ni²
    • Yale: ní
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
    • Palladius: ни (ni)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nír
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nír
    • Wade–Giles: ni²-ʼrh
    • Yale: nír
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: niel
    • Palladius: нир (nir)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /niə̯ɻ³⁵/

Note: erhua-ed - "girl".

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nei⁴
    • Yale: nèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: néi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nei̯²¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: nieh⁴
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /niəʔ²/

Definitions

妮

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) servant girl
2. (dialectal, endearing or derogatory) girl
3. a surname

Compounds

• 妮婢
• 妮子 (nīzi)
• 姻妮
• 婢妮
• 小妮子 (xiǎonīzi)
• 梳頭妮子 / 梳头妮子
• 歐妮 / 欧妮 (ōunī)
• 狎妮
• 親妮 / 亲妮
• 閨妮 / 闺妮

References

• “妮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

妮

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: に (ni)
• Kan-on: じ (ji)
• Kun: はしため (hashitame)、やわらかくまつわる (yawarakakumatsuwaru)^{←やはらかくまつはる (yafarakakumatufaru, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

妮 (eum 니 (ni))

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Vietnamese

Han character

妮: Hán Nôm readings: ny, ni

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