涅
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(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye); (literary) to dye black
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 水 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 涅
- Common rank
- #2,156
- Unicode
- U+6D85
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Formation & memory
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How 涅 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 圼 sound
Components 氵 圼
Words with 涅
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 罗斯涅夫 | Rosneft (Russian state oil company) | |
| 波洛涅斯 | (name) Polonius; Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet | |
| 顿涅斯克 | Donetsk region of W. Ukraine | |
| 埃涅阿斯 | Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid | |
| 埃涅阿斯纪 | Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome) | |
| 格涅沙 | Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati) | |
| 奥腊涅斯塔德 | Oranjestad, capital of Aruba 阿魯巴|阿鲁巴[A1 lu3 ba1] | |
| 涅瓦河 | Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg) | |
| 勃列日涅夫 | Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of… | |
| 沃罗涅日 | Voronezh, city in the southwest of European Russia | |
| 菲涅耳透镜 | Fresnel lens | |
| 海涅 | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet | |
| 涅白 | opaque white | |
| 涅石 | alumen; alunite (TCM) | |
| 顿涅茨克 | Donetsk, city in Ukraine | |
| 屠格涅夫 | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist | |
| 入涅 | to enter nirvana (Buddhism) | |
| 涅瓦 | the Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg) | |
| 大本涅槃经 | (Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra | |
| 康涅狄格 | Connecticut, US state |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 圼 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圼 sound part | — | slime, black mud |
| 捏 | to knead, to mold, to pinch |