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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)

入涅
rùniè
to enter nirvana (Buddhism)
海涅
Hǎiniè
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet
涅槃
nièpán
nirvana (Buddhism)
涅瓦
Nièwǎ
the Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg)
涅白
nièbái
opaque white
涅石
nièshí
alumen
涅磐
nièpán
variant of [[涅槃<nièpán>]]
羽涅
yǔniè
alumen
格涅沙
génièshā
Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)
涅盘经
NièpánJīng
the Nirvana sutra: every living thing has Buddha nature.
涅瓦河
NièwǎHé
Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg)
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
顿涅茨克
Dùnniècíkè
Donetsk, city in Ukraine
勃列日涅夫
Bólièrìnièfū
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982

Alternate Entries

涅
niè
variant of [[涅<niè>]]

Metadata

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