倪 (ní): surname Ni, (literary) small child, (literary) limit, bound, extremity
倪 (ní) is a Chinese character meaning “(literary) small child.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 亻 (structural) and 兒 (structural). It ranks #3654 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 倪 a young child 兒. Its radical form 亻 (person) appears in many related characters such as 人 (rén, person), 你 (nǐ, you), 他 (tā, he).
Definitions
- surname Ni
- (literary) small child
- (literary) limit
- bound
- extremity
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 端倪noun | duān ní | boundary |
| 不可端倪 | bù kě duān ní | impossible to get even an outline (idiom) |
| 狄俄倪索斯 | dí é ní suǒ sī | Dionysus, the god of wine in Greek mythology |
| 一窥端倪 | yī kuī duān ní | to infer easily |
| 倪柝声 | ní tuò shēng | Ni Tuosheng or Watchman Nee (1903-1972), influential Chinese Christian |
| 倪嗣冲 | ní sì chōng | Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 during his unsuccessful 1915 b... |
| 倪桂珍 | ní guì zhēn | Ni Guizhen or Ni Kwei-Tseng (1869 - 1931), mother of Song Ailing 宋藹齡|宋蔼龄, Song Qingling 宋慶齡|宋庆龄[Song... |
| 熊倪 | xióng ní | Xiong Ni (1974-), Chinese diving athlete |
| 俾倪 | bǐ ní | parapet |
| 旄倪 | mào ní | variant of 耄倪 |
| 耄倪 | mào ní | old and young |
| 倪匡 | ní kuāng | Ni Kuang (1935–2022), Chinese novelist and screenwriter |
倪 appears in 12 compound words: 33 as the first character, 58 as the last, and 8 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Example Sentences
闫妮、叶童、倪虹洁三位演员同台飙戏,有笑有泪,温暖治愈。
yán nī , yè tóng , ní hóng jié sān wèi yǎn yuán tóng tái biāo xì , yǒu xiào yǒu lèi , wēn nuǎn zhì yù .
Actresses Yan Ni, Ye Tong, and Ni Hongjie share the stage in a powerful performance that alternates between laughter and tears, offering a warm and healing experience.
倪军认为,钠离子电池和凝聚态电池可以兼容现有生产线,更接近规模化应用。
ní jūn rèn wéi , nà lí zǐ diàn chí hé níng jù tài diàn chí kě yǐ jiān róng xiàn yǒu shēng chǎn xiàn , gèng jiē jìn guī mó huà yīng yòng .
Ni Jun believes that sodium-ion batteries and solid-state batteries are compatible with existing production lines and are closer to large-scale application.
宁德时代首席制造官倪军:会造车不一定会造电池
níng dé shí dài shǒu xí zhì zào guān ní jūn : huì zào chē bù yī dìng huì zào diàn chí
Ni Jun, Chief Manufacturing Officer at CATL: Just because you can build cars doesn’t mean you can build batteries
倪肯弹着布朗族牛腿琴演唱《结下情谊万年长》。
ní kěn dàn zhe bù lǎng zú niú tuǐ qín yǎn chàng jié xià qíng yì wàn nián cháng .
Ni Ken played the Brown ethnic group’s cow-leg lute while singing “A Bond of Friendship That Will Last for Ten Thousand Years.”
社会阶层分化已露端倪,“礼制”初具雏形,文明化进程悄然铺展开来。
shè huì jiē céng fēn huà yǐ lù duān ní , lǐ zhì chū jù chú xíng , wén míng huà jìn chéng qiǎo rán pù zhǎn kāi lái .
Signs of social stratification were beginning to emerge, the "system of rituals" was taking shape, and the process of civilization was quietly unfolding.
Character Family
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