暱

Translingual

Han character

暱 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日尸廿口 (ASTR), four-corner 6101₆, composition ⿰日匿)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 499, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14132
• Dae Jaweon: page 868, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1528, character 4
• Unihan data for U+66B1

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 暱
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“to be near, close”). Cognate with Burmese နီး (ni:, “near”) and Tibetan ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

暱

1. intimate, close, familiar

   • 公曰：“不義不暱，厚將崩。” [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     公曰：“不义不昵，厚将崩。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Gōng yuē: “Bù yì bù nì, hòu jiāng bēng.”

     The lord said: "Not righteous (towards his lord) and not close (to his elder brother), when he expands his territory, he will fall."

2. to approach

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にち (nichi); ね (ne); ねい (nei)
• Kan-on: じつ (jitsu); でい (dei)
• Kun: ちかづく (chikazuku, 暱く)^{←ちかづく (tikaduku, 暱く, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

暱 • (nil>il) (hangeul 닐>일, revised nil>il, McCune–Reischauer nil>il, Yale nil>il)

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Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• 昵 (nặc)

Han character

暱: Hán Việt readings: nặc

1. chữ Hán form of nặc (“intimate; close”).

References