涅

See also: 㘿

涅 U+2F905, 涅 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F905 ← 浸 [U+2F904] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𣴞 → [U+2F906]

Translingual

Han character

涅 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水日土 (EAG), four-corner 3611₄, composition ⿰氵圼)

1. blacken
2. black mud, slime
3. to tattoo
4. abbreviation for 涅槃 (nirvana)

Derived characters

• 篞, 𦶄, 𡮛, 𢟗, 𦄇, 𣻾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 626, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17521
• Dae Jaweon: page 1027, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1623, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6D85

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		涅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (日) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
涅	*niːɡ
捏	*niːɡ
篞	*niːɡ
衵	*niɡ, *njiɡ
日	*njiɡ
馹	*njiɡ

Etymology

"black mud"

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nyak (“filth(y); excrement”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སྙིགས་པ (snyigs pa, “impure sediment”), Burmese ညစ် (nyac, “dirty; filthy”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 涅

1. black mud
2. melanterite (which can be used as black dye)
3. black
4. to dye black; to blacken

   不曰白乎，涅而不緇。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   不曰白乎，涅而不缁。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

   Bù yuē bái hū, niè ér bù zī. [Pinyin]

   Is it not said, that, if a thing be really white, it may be steeped in a dark fluid without being made black?

5. Short for 涅槃 (nièpán, “(Buddhism) nirvana”).

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Japanese

Kanji

涅

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. black soil

Readings

• Go-on: ねち (nechi)
• Kan-on: でつ (detsu); ねつ (netsu)
• Kan’yō-on: ね (ne)
• Kun: くり (kuri, 涅); そめる (someru, 涅める)

Compounds

• 涅歯(でっし) (desshi), 涅歯(ねっし) (nesshi, “black dye for teeth”)
• 涅槃(ねはん) (nehan, “nirvana”)
• 規尼涅(キニーネ) (kinīne, “quinine”)

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
涅
くり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

• 皂

Etymology

First attested in the Wamyō Ruijushō (938 CE).

Cognate with 黒 (kuro, “black”), likely from a kur- stem.

Noun

涅(くり) • (kuri) 

1. black soil (used for dyes)
2. Short for 涅色 (kuriiro): a brownish-black color

Derived terms

• 涅色(くりいろ) (kuriiro, “brownish-black”)
• 厨(くりや) (kuriya, “kitchen”)

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Korean

Hanja

涅 • (nyeol>yeol, nal) (hangeul 녈>열, 날, revised nyeol>yeol, nal, McCune–Reischauer nyŏl>yŏl, nal, Yale nyel>yel, nal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 涅 (nết, nạt, nét, nhít, nít, niết, nớt, nức, nát)

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References

• Nom Foundation