泥
2 readings · tap one to hear it
mud; clay; paste; pulp
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 水 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 泥
- Common rank
- #825
- Unicode
- U+6CE5
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
mud · Heisig RSH #885
水 water + 尼 nun
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 泥
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 泥古不化 | conservative and unable to adapt (idiom) | |
| 水泥地 | concrete-paved surface; concrete floor | |
| 白水泥 | white cement | |
| 泥牛入海 | lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning | |
| 泥石流 | landslide; torrent of mud and stones; mudslide | |
| 草泥马 | see 肏你媽|肏你妈[cao4 ni3 ma1] (near homophone of 肏你媽|肏你妈[cao4 ni3 ma1] used to avoid Internet … | |
| 骨水泥 | bone cement; orthopedic cement | |
| 云泥之别 | (idiom) a world of difference | |
| 泥子 | putty (used by plumbers and glaziers) | |
| 泥人 | clay figurine | |
| 水泥 | cement; CL:袋[dai4] | |
| 泥水 | muddy water; mud; masonry (craft) | |
| 泥金 | to gild; gilt | |
| 云泥之差 | see 雲泥之別|云泥之别[yun2 ni2 zhi1 bie2] | |
| 绿泥石 | chlorite (geology) | |
| 泥工 | mason; masonry work | |
| 泥巴 | (coll.) mud | |
| 泥菩萨过江，自身难保 | like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can't guarantee his own safety; unable to save on… | |
| 软泥儿 | erhua variant of 軟泥|软泥[ruan3 ni2] | |
| 土豆泥 | mashed potato |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尼 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尼 sound part | Buddhist nun; used in transliterations | |
| 呢 | wool; interrogative or emphatic final particle | |
| 妮 | maid, servant girl; cute girl | |
| 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 |