霓
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Japanese cicada; old variant of 霓[ni2]
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 雨 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 霓
- Common rank
- #3,440
- Unicode
- U+9713
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Formation & memory
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Words with 霓
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大旱之望云霓 | see 大旱望雲霓|大旱望云霓[da4 han4 wang4 yun2 ni2] | |
| 大旱望云霓 | (lit.) looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom); (fig.) to yearn for relief fro… | |
| 霓虹国 | (slang) Japan (loanword from the Japanese word for Japan, 日本 "Nihon") | |
| 霓虹灯 | (loanword) neon lights | |
| 霓虹 | (loanword) neon lights (abbr. for 霓虹燈|霓虹灯[ni2 hong2 deng1]); (literary) rainbow | |
| 霓裳 | Nichang, abbr. for the Tang Dynasty song "Raiment of Rainbows and Feathers" 霓裳羽衣曲[Ni2 chan… | |
| 霓裳 | nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the Eight Immortals 八仙[Ba1 xian1] |