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

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

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) servant girl
(dialectal, endearing or derogatory) girl
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 • (ni) (hangeul 니, revised ni, McCune–Reischauer ni)

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Vietnamese

Han character

妮: Hán Nôm readings: ny, ni

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