涅 (niè): (literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye), (literary) to dye black
涅 (niè) is a Chinese character meaning “(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye).” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 圼 (phonetic). It ranks #2703 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 涅 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 河 (hé, river), 海 (hǎi, sea), 洋 (yáng, ocean).
Definitions
- (literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye)
- (literary) to dye black
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 康涅狄格proper-noun | kāng niè dí gé | Connecticut, US state |
| 埃涅阿斯proper-noun | āi niè ā sī | Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid |
| 波洛涅斯 | bō luò niè sī | (name) Polonius |
| 海涅 | hǎi niè | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet |
| 屠格涅夫proper-noun | tú gé niè fū | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist |
| 罗斯涅夫 | luó sī niè fū | Rosneft (Russian state oil company) |
| 大本涅槃经 | dà běn niè pán jīng | (Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra |
| 顿涅斯克 | dùn niè sī kè | Donetsk region of W. Ukraine |
| 埃涅阿斯纪 | āi niè ā sī jì | Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome) |
| 大般涅槃经 | dà bān niè pán jīng | (Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant,... |
| 勃列日涅夫proper-noun | bó liè rì niè fū | Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982 |
| 格涅沙 | gé niè shā | Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati) |
| 入涅 | rù niè | to enter nirvana (Buddhism) |
| 涅白 | niè bái | opaque white |
| 奥腊涅斯塔德 | ào là niè sī tǎ dé | Oranjestad, capital of Aruba 阿魯巴|阿鲁巴 |
涅 appears in 25 compound words: 28 as the first character, 12 as the last, and 60 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Idioms & Chengyu (5)
Showing 4 of 5 idioms containing 涅.
Example Sentences
暴雨过后,涅水上涨,淹没了低洼的街道。
bào yǔ guò hòu , niè shuǐ shàng zhǎng , yān méi le dī wā de jiē dào .
After the heavy rain, the Nye River swelled and flooded the low-lying streets.
上半场还没过半,迪涅禁区内解围时不慎踢倒插上的亚马尔,送给对方一记点球。
shàng bàn chǎng hái méi guò bàn , dí niè jīn qū nèi jiě wéi shí bù shèn tī dǎo chā shàng de yà mǎ ěr , sòng gěi duì fāng yī jì diǎn qiú .
Before the first half was even halfway over, Digne accidentally knocked down Yamal, who was making a run into the box, while clearing the ball, conceding a penalty kick to the opposing team.
第20分钟,亚马尔在禁区内被迪涅踢倒,西班牙队获得点球机会。
dì 2 0 fēn zhōng , yà mǎ ěr zài jīn qū nèi bèi dí niè tī dǎo , xī bān yá duì huò dé diǎn qiú jī huì .
In the 20th minute, Yamal was brought down by Digne inside the penalty area, and Spain was awarded a penalty kick.
随后返回第比利斯,经过一整天火车与小巴的辗转,前往上斯瓦涅季地区 Mestia。
suí hòu fǎn huí dì bǐ lì sī , jīng guò yī zhěng tiān huǒ chē yǔ xiǎo bā de niǎn zhuǎn , qián wǎng shàng sī wǎ niè jì dì qū M e s t i a .
We then returned to Tbilisi and, after a full day of traveling by train and minibus, headed to Mestia in the Upper Svaneti region.
涅瓦大街沿途周边有很多商店。
niè wǎ dà jiē yán tú zhōu biān yǒu hěn duō shāng diàn .
There are many shops along Nevsky Prospect and in the surrounding area.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 氵 (water) component
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