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涅
niè
1. to blacken
2. abbr. for [[涅槃<nièpán>]]
Very Common • Top 5% ✏️ 10 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

涅
niè
to blacken; slime, black mud
10 丶

Compound Words (20)

涅磐
nièpán
variant of [[涅槃<nièpán>]]
涅石
nièshí
alumen
海涅
Hǎiniè
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet
涅槃
nièpán
nirvana (Buddhism)
涅白
nièbái
opaque white
入涅
rùniè
to enter nirvana (Buddhism)
羽涅
yǔniè
alumen
涅瓦
Nièwǎ
the Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg)
涅盘经
NièpánJīng
the Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature.
涅瓦河
NièwǎHé
Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg)
格涅沙
génièshā
Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)
顿涅茨克
Dùnniècíkè
Donetsk, city in Ukraine
埃涅阿斯
Āinièāsī
Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid
屠格涅夫
Túgénièfū
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
康涅狄格
Kāngnièdígé
Connecticut, US state
沃罗涅日
Wòluónièrì
Voronezh, city in the southwest of European Russia
波洛涅斯
Bōluònièsī
Polonius (name)
罗斯涅夫
Luósīnièfū
Rosneft (Russian state oil company)
顿涅斯克
Dùnnièsīkè
Donetsk region of W. Ukraine
大般涅盘经
dàbānNièpánjīng
Nirvana sutra

Alternate Entries

涅
niè
variant of [[涅<niè>]]

Metadata

Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
2,342
Word Frequency Rank
3,823 of 84,292