涅
(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye); (literary) to dye black
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Dict coverage rank #2,156 U+6D85
How 涅 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 圼 (phonetic)
components: 氵 圼
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 圼
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 圼 (—) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圼 sound component | — | slime, black mud |
| 捏 | niē | to knead, to mold, to pinch |
Words containing 涅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 罗斯涅夫 | Luó sī niè fū | Rosneft (Russian state oil company) |
| 波洛涅斯 | Bō luò niè sī | (name) Polonius; Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet |
| 顿涅斯克 | Dùn niè sī kè | Donetsk region of W. Ukraine |
| 埃涅阿斯 | Āi niè ā sī | Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid |
| 埃涅阿斯纪 | Āi niè ā sī Jì | Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome) |
| 格涅沙 | Gé niè shā | Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati) |
| 奥腊涅斯塔德 | Ào là niè sī tǎ dé | Oranjestad, capital of Aruba 阿魯巴|阿鲁巴[A1 lu3 ba1] |
| 涅瓦河 | Niè wǎ Hé | Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg) |
| 勃列日涅夫 | Bó liè rì niè fū | Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of… |
| 沃罗涅日 | Wò luó niè rì | Voronezh, city in the southwest of European Russia |
| 菲涅耳透镜 | Fēi niè ěr tòu jìng | Fresnel lens |
| 海涅 | Hǎi niè | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet |
| 涅白 | niè bái | opaque white |
| 涅石 | niè shí | alumen; alunite (TCM) |
| 顿涅茨克 | Dùn niè cí kè | Donetsk, city in Ukraine |
| 屠格涅夫 | Tú gé niè fū | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist |
| 入涅 | rù niè | to enter nirvana (Buddhism) |
| 涅瓦 | Niè wǎ | the Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg) |
| 大本涅槃经 | Dà běn Niè pán Jīng | (Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra |
| 康涅狄格 | Kāng niè dí gé | Connecticut, US state |