腻
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greasy; soft; unctuous; intimate; tired of
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 肉 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 膩
- Common rank
- #2,433
- Unicode
- U+817B
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 腻 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ meaning “flesh” + 贰 sound ()
Components ⺼ 贰
How to remember it
sick and tired of · Heisig RSH #1660
flesh + 贰 II
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 腻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甜得发腻 | lovey-dovey; cloying; sugary | |
| 听腻了 | fed up of hearing | |
| 腻子 | putty (same as 泥子); frequent caller; hanger-on | |
| 腻人 | greasy; boring | |
| 油腻 | greasy food; oily food; (of food) greasy; oily; fatty; (neologism, attested by 2017) (of a… | |
| 解腻 | to relieve the greasy sensation of fatty or oily food | |
| 吃腻 | to be sick of eating (sth); to be tired of eating (sth) | |
| 细腻 | (of skin etc) smooth; satiny; delicate; (of a performance, depiction, craftsmanship etc) f… | |
| 腻虫 | aphid | |
| 腻友 | intimate friend | |
| 腻味 | tired of; fed up with; sick of; (of a person) to annoy; to be tiresome | |
| 滑腻 | (of skin) satiny | |
| 猫腻 | (coll.) something fishy; shenanigans | |
| 肥腻 | (of foods) fatty; greasy | |
| 甜腻 | sweet and unctuous; (fig.) overly sentimental | |
| 厌腻 | to detest; to abhor | |
| 黏腻 | sticky; clammy; (fig.) clingy; emotionally dependent | |
| 烦腻 | fed up | |
| 腻烦 | bored; to be fed up with; sick and tired of sth; Taiwan pr. [ni4 fan2] | |
| 腻歪 | (of a couple) to be sweet to each other; lovey-dovey; tired of; fed up with; sick of (syno… |