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U+8076, 聶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8076

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 128, +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十尸十十 (SJSJJ), four-corner 10441, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 969, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29179
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2796, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8076

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

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

Triplication of (“ear”).

Pronunciation


  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /niɛ⁵¹/
Harbin /niɛ⁵³/
Tianjin /nie⁵³/
Jinan /ȵiə²¹/
Qingdao /niə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /niɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /niɛ²¹/
Xining /ȵi⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /nie¹³/
Lanzhou /ȵiə¹³/
Ürümqi /ȵiɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /nie²¹³/
Chengdu /ȵie³¹/
Guiyang /nie²¹/
Kunming /niɛ³¹/
Nanjing /lieʔ⁵/
Hefei /liɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /niəʔ²/
Pingyao /ȵiʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /niaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ȵiaʔ¹/
Suzhou /ȵiəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ȵiəʔ²/
Wenzhou /ȵi²¹³/
Hui Shexian /neʔ²¹/
Tunxi /ȵia⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ȵie²⁴/
Xiangtan /ȵie²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /ȵiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ŋiap̚¹/
Taoyuan /ŋiɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nip̚²/
Nanning /nip̚²²/
Hong Kong /nip̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /liap̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /niɛʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /niɛ²⁴/
/ŋiɛ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /niap̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /nit̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (12)
Final () (156)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter nrjep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳˠiᴇp̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳᵚiɛp̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/niæp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳjiap̚/
Li
Rong
/njɛp̚/
Wang
Li
/nĭɛp̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ni̯ɛp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
niè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
nip6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
niè
Middle
Chinese
‹ nrjep ›
Old
Chinese
/*nrep/
English promise; whisper in one"s ear

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9529
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*neb/

Definitions

  1. to whisper (into one's ear)
  2. a surname
      ―  Niè Ěr  ―  Nie Er (Chinese composer)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

(seop) (hangeul , revised seop, McCune–Reischauer sŏp, Yale sep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: nhiếp, niếp

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