妮
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girl; phonetic "ni" (in female names); Taiwan pr. [ni2]
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 女 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 妮
- Common rank
- #2,990
- Unicode
- U+59AE
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 妮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 布兰妮·斯皮尔斯 | Britney Spears (1981-), US pop singer | |
| 妮可·基德曼 | Nicole Kidman (1967-), film actress | |
| 布里特妮 | Britney, Brittney or Brittany (name) | |
| 惠特妮·休斯顿 | Whitney Houston (1963-2012), American singer and actress | |
| 达科塔·芬妮 | Dakota Fanning, American actress | |
| 妮维雅 | Nivea, skin and body care brand | |
| 胡燕妮 | Jenny Hu (1945-), Hong Kong actress | |
| 妮子 | (coll.) lass; (dialect) little girl | |
| 安妮 | Annie (name) | |
| 方妮 | Fanny (name) | |
| 杨采妮 | Charlie Young (1974-), Hong Kong actress and singer | |
| 妮维娅 | Nivea, skin and body care brand |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尼 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尼 sound part | Buddhist nun; used in transliterations | |
| 泥 | mud, earth, clay; plaster, paste | |
| 呢 | wool; interrogative or emphatic final particle | |
| 昵 | close, intimate; to approach | |
| 怩 | timid, shy; bashful, ashamed | |
| 旎 | romantic; the fluttering of a flag | |
| 伲 | we (Shanghai dialect) | |
| 坭 | mud, mire; to paste, to plaster | |
| 铌 | niobium |