妮

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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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 (ni¹, ni²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧ, ㄋㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nei⁴

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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, 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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nei⁴
    • Yale: nèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: néi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nei̯²¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 妮

1. servant girl
2. (endearing or derogatory) girl
3. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

妮

(uncommon “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)}

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Korean

Hanja

妮 • (ni) (hangeul 니, revised ni, McCune–Reischauer ni)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 妮 (ny, ni)

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