涅

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

• 篞, 𦶄, 𡮛, 𢟗, 𦄇, 𣻾

• 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

• Unihan data for U+2F905

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *niːɡ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + semantic 土 (“soil”) + phonetic 日 (OC *njiɡ).

"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”).

涅

1. black mud
2. melanterite
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?

• “涅”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02111

• 皂

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. black soil

• 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)

• 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”)

First attested in the Wamyō Ruijushō (938 CE).^[1]

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

涅(くり) • (kuri) 

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

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

涅 (eumhun 개흙 녈 (gaeheuk nyeol), word-initial (South Korea) 개흙 열 (gaeheuk yeol))

1. hanja form^? of 녈 (“black soil”)

• 열반 (涅槃, yeolban, “nirvana”)

涅: Hán Nôm readings: nết, nạt, nét, nhít, nít, niết, nớt, nức, nát

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