昵

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See also: 暱 and 眤
昵 U+6635, 昵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6635
← 昴
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 昶 →

Translingual

Han character

昵 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日尸心 (ASP), four-corner 67011, composition ⿰日尼)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 494, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13866
  • Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1504, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6635

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 昵
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (尼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
泥 *niːl, *niːls
屔 *niːl
苨 *niːlʔ
坭 *niːlʔ
迡 *niːls
埿 *braːms, *niːl, *niːls
旎 *nilʔ
狔 *nilʔ
抳 *nilʔ
尼 *nil
呢 *nil
怩 *nil
柅 *nil, *nilʔ
蚭 *nil
跜 *nil
秜 *nil
痆 *rniːd
昵 *niɡ

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 昵 – see 暱 (“intimate, close, familiar; to approach”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 暱).
Notes:

Etymology 2

trad. 昵
simp. # 昵
alternative forms 眤
𣆓

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 昵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 娘 (12)
Final (韻) 質 (49)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 尼質切
Baxter nrit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɳˠiɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɳᵚit̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/niet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɳjit̚/
Li
Rong 		/njĕt̚/
Wang
Li 		/nĭĕt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ni̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		nì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nat6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 昵
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		nì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nrit ›
Old
Chinese 		/*n<r>ik/
English close, intimate

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 昵
Reading # 1/1
No. 9437
Phonetic
component 		尼
Rime
group 		質
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		暱
Old
Chinese 		/*niɡ/
Notes 說文暱或體

Definitions

昵

  1. alternative form of 暱 (nì, “near; close; intimate”)

Compounds

Etymology 3

trad. 昵
simp. # 昵
alternative forms 𣽚

Pronunciation

Definitions

昵

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to glue

References

Japanese

Kanji

昵

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. intimate; close; familiar

Readings

  • On (unclassified): じつ (jitsu)、しょく (shoku)
  • Kun: ちかずく (chikazuku)

Compounds

Korean

Etymology 1

Hanja

昵 (eum 닐 (nil), word-initial (South Korea) 일 (il))

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Etymology 2

Hanja

昵 (eumhun 아비사당 녜 (abisadang nye), word-initial (South Korea) 아비사당 예 (abisadang ye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

昵: Hán Việt readings: nặc

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References

  1. ^ Trần (2004).
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