倪

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See also: ⿰亻児
倪 U+502A, 倪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-502A
← 倩
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倫 →

Translingual

Han character

倪 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人竹難山 (OHXU), four-corner 27217, composition ⿰亻兒)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 109, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 792
  • Dae Jaweon: page 231, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 179, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+502A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 倪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倪
Small seal script

s05811

Transcribed ancient scripts

L02269

L02270

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (兒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
掜 *rŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
誽 *rŋeː
倪 *ŋeː
蜺 *ŋeː, *ŋeː
霓 *ŋeː, *ŋeːs, *ŋeː
郳 *ŋeː
齯 *ŋeː
婗 *ŋeː
輗 *ŋeː
棿 *ŋeː
猊 *ŋeː
麑 *ŋeː
貎 *ŋeː
鯢 *ŋeː
兒 *ŋeː, *ŋje
觬 *ŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
堄 *ŋeːʔ, *ŋeːs
晲 *ŋeːʔ
睨 *ŋeːs
唲 *ŋje
隉 *ŋeːd
鶂 *ŋeːɡ
鬩 *ɦŋeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋeː) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje).

Pronunciation 1

Note: ghoi5 - surname.
Rime
Character 倪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 五稽切
Baxter ngej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋei/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋei/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋɛj/
Li
Rong 		/ŋei/
Wang
Li 		/ŋiei/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ŋiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ngai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		ní
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ngej ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋˁe/
English young and weak

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 倪
Reading # 1/1
No. 2736
Phonetic
component 		兒
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		倪
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋeː/

Definitions

倪

  1. † small child
  2. † small and weak
  3. † origin; beginning
  4. † bound; limit; extremity
  5. † to differentiate
  6. (Wu) I; we
    alt. forms: 伲 (nǐ)
  7. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

倪

  1. Alternative form of 睨 (nì, “to look sideways; to squint”)

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

⿰亻児

Kyūjitai

倪

Kanji

倪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰亻児)

  1. small child
  2. edge, limit, boundary

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

倪 (eum 예 (ye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

倪: Hán Nôm readings: nghê, hầu

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