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尼 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸心 (SP), four-corner 77211, composition ⿸尸匕)
Historical forms of the character 尼 | |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) . The character does not appear as an independent character in the oracle bone script but appears as a component of 𢓚 and 秜. The character shows a man (尸) sitting on or leaning on another man (匕), giving the original meaning of “to stop” or “close; intimate”; the derivative 昵 refers to the latter meaning.
Shuowen considered it as a phono-sematic compound, but this is widely discredited by later scholars.
trad. | 尼 | |
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simp. # | 尼 |
Clipping of 比丘尼 (bǐqiūní), from Sanskrit भिक्षुणी (bhikṣuṇī, “female beggar”) or Pali bhikkhunī (“female beggar”). Compare Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣu, “beggar”).
Variety | Location | 尼 |
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Mandarin | Beijing | /ni³⁵/ |
Harbin | /ni²⁴/ | |
Tianjin | /ni⁴⁵/ | |
Jinan | /ȵi⁴²/ | |
Qingdao | /ni⁴²/ | |
Zhengzhou | /ni⁴²/ | |
Xi'an | /ni²⁴/ | |
Xining | /mji²⁴/ | |
Yinchuan | /mi⁵³/ /ni⁵³/ | |
Lanzhou | /ȵi⁵³/ | |
Ürümqi | /ȵi⁵¹/ | |
Wuhan | /ni²¹³/ | |
Chengdu | /ȵi³¹/ | |
Guiyang | /ni²¹/ | |
Kunming | /ni³¹/ | |
Nanjing | /li²⁴/ | |
Hefei | /zz̩⁵⁵/ | |
Jin | Taiyuan | /ni¹¹/ |
Pingyao | /ȵi¹³/ | |
Hohhot | /ni³¹/ | |
Wu | Shanghai | /ȵi²³/ |
Suzhou | /ȵi¹³/ | |
Hangzhou | /ȵi²¹³/ | |
Wenzhou | /ȵi³¹/ | |
Hui | Shexian | /ni⁴⁴/ |
Tunxi | /ȵie⁴⁴/ | |
Xiang | Changsha | /ȵi¹³/ |
Xiangtan | /ȵi¹²/ | |
Gan | Nanchang | /ȵi⁴⁵/ |
Hakka | Meixian | /ni¹¹/ |
Taoyuan | /ni¹¹/ | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | /nei²¹/ |
Nanning | /nɐi²¹/ | |
Hong Kong | /nei²¹/ | |
Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /ni³⁵/ |
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /nɛ⁵³/ | |
Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /ni²¹/ /mi³³/ | |
Shantou (Teochew) | /nĩ⁵⁵/ | |
Haikou (Hainanese) | /ni³¹/ /ni²¹³/ 俗 |
尼
trad. | 尼 | |
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simp. # | 尼 |
Unknown. Possibly a variant of 邇 (OC *njelʔ, “near”) (compare Mandarin 你 (nǐ) from 爾 (OC *njelʔ)), or a conflation of 邇 (OC *njelʔ, “near”) and 昵 (OC *niɡ) (Schuessler, 2007).
尼
trad. | 尼 | |
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simp. # | 尼 |
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
尼
trad. | 尼 | |
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simp. # | 尼 |
Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-njal (“to sleep; to lie down”) (Sagart, 2004) while inheriting a *-t applicative suffix (Jacques, 2016a), since Middle Chinese sources quote the fanqie 女乙切 or /*ɳit̚/ (The Jingdian Shiwen section for the quotation from Mencius; see below). The stem word can be compared with the Tibetan ཉལ་པ (nyal pa, “to lie down; to go to sleep; to dwell”), and possibly with the Tangut 𗱩 (*njwij¹, “to obstruct; to obscure; to choke up”). See also 柅 (OC *nil, *nilʔ, “stopper”) attested in the Zhou Yi.
(Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)
尼
trad. | 尼 | |
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simp. # | 尼 | |
alternative forms | 乃 倷 |
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
尼
Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 些 | |
Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 些 |
Singapore | 些 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 啲 |
Hong Kong | 啲 | |
Taishan | 尼 | |
Singapore (Guangfu) | 啲 | |
Hakka | Meixian | 兜 |
Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 兜 | |
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 兜 | |
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 兜 | |
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 兜 | |
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 兜 | |
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 兜 | |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 寡 |
Zhangzhou | 寡 | |
Tainan | 寡 | |
Singapore (Hokkien) | 寡 | |
Manila (Hokkien) | 寡 | |
Shantou | 撮 | |
Jieyang | 撮 | |
Singapore (Teochew) | 撮 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 眼, 點, 些 formal or Mandarin-influenced |
Wenzhou | 厘兒 |
trad. | 尼 | |
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simp. # | 尼 |
尼
Kanji in this term |
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尼 |
あま Grade: S |
kun'yomi |
Probably ultimately from Pali amma (“mother; woman”).[1][2]
Kanji in this term |
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尼 |
あま Grade: S |
kun'yomi |
Clipping of アマゾン (Amazon, “Amazon.com Inc”).
From Middle Chinese 尼 (MC nrij). Recorded as Middle Korean 니 (ni) (Yale: ni) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.
尼 (eumhun 여승 니 (yeoseung ni), word-initial (South Korea) 여승 이 (yeoseung i))