倪
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(literary) small child; (literary) limit; bound; extremity; (literary) to differentiate; (literary) origin; cause
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 人 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 倪
- Common rank
- #2,839
- Unicode
- U+502A
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Formation & memory
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How 倪 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A young child 兒
Components 亻 兒
Words with 倪
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不可端倪 | impossible to get even an outline (idiom); unfathomable; not a clue | |
| 狄俄倪索斯 | Dionysus, the god of wine in Greek mythology | |
| 一窥端倪 | to infer easily; to guess at a glance; to get a clue | |
| 端倪 | boundary; clue; indication; to obtain clues; to infer | |
| 倪桂珍 | Ni Guizhen or Ni Kwei-Tseng (1869 - 1931), mother of Song Ailing 宋藹齡|宋蔼龄[Song4 Ai3 ling2],… | |
| 熊倪 | Xiong Ni (1974-), Chinese diving athlete | |
| 倪嗣冲 | Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] dur… | |
| 倪柝声 | Ni Tuosheng or Watchman Nee (1903-1972), influential Chinese Christian | |
| 俾倪 | parapet; to look askance | |
| 耄倪 | old and young | |
| 倪匡 | Ni Kuang (1935–2022), Chinese novelist and screenwriter | |
| 旄倪 | variant of 耄倪[mao4 ni2] |