泥

泥 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水尸心 (ESP), four-corner 3711₁, composition ⿰氵尼)

• 𪣮, 𩸦(𩾆), 𬈤, 𤀛, 𬉚, 𦰫, 埿, 𢛜, 𥺜, 𩸧

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 617, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17311
• Dae Jaweon: page 1012, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1595, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6CE5
• Unihan data for U+F9E3

Historical forms of the character 泥
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *niːl, *niːls) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 尼 (OC *nil).

Schuessler (2007) suggests it is of Sino-Tibetan origin and compares it to Lai [script needed] (nôoy-I, nǒoy-II, “be muddy”), which STEDT derives from Proto-Kuki-Chin *nooy ~ *naay (“muddy; dirty”). According to Schuessler (2007), 泥 (OC *niːl, “mud”) is also cognate with 濘 (OC *neːŋs) but not with 涅 (OC *niːɡ), and is distinct from 泥 (OC *niːls, “impeded”).

On the other hand, STEDT compares 泥 (OC *niːl, *niːls) to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-njak (“filth(y); excrement”), to which 敜 (OC *nɯːb) and 涅 (OC *niːɡ) are also compared.

泥

1. mud (Classifier: 嚿 c; 坺 c)

   滿腳是泥／满脚是泥  ―  mǎn jiǎo shì ní  ―  mud all over one's feet

   軟泥／软泥  ―  ruǎnní  ―  soft mud

   泥娃娃  ―  níwáwá  ―  clay doll

2. (dialectal) soil; earth

   一嚿泥 [Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ gau⁶ nai⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  a clod of earth

3. any mush-like substance

   薯泥  ―  shǔní  ―  mashed potato

   泥膠／泥胶  ―  níjiāo  ―  Blu-Tack

   鷹嘴豆泥／鹰嘴豆泥  ―  yīngzuǐdòuní  ―  hummus

4. (obsolete) paint (used on walls)
5. An ancient river in modern Hunan
6. An ancient river in modern Gansu
7. (obsolete) weak
8. (Chinese mythology) a kind of animal that lived in sea
9. a surname
10. (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 泥 (MC nej)

Schuessler (2007) suggests it is the exopassive derivation of 敜 (OC *nɯːb, “to stop up”) or 涅 (OC *niːɡ, “to stop up”) and is distinct from 泥 (OC *niːl, “mud”).

泥

1. to hold up; to bog down

   • 雖小道，必有可觀者焉，致遠恐泥，是以君子不為也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     虽小道，必有可观者焉，致远恐泥，是以君子不为也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Suī xiǎodào, bì yǒu kěguān zhě yān, zhì yuǎn kǒng nì, shìyǐ jūnzǐ bù wéi yě. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. to plaster; to cover with plaster
3. stubborn; obstinate

   拘泥  ―  jūní  ―  to rigidly adhere to

4. to pester using soft words
5. to be obsessed with and be reluctant to let go of

泥

1. Only used in 泥泥.

泥

1. Only used in 泥母.

• “泥”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02161
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00771-003-1
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) →ISBN.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: ない (nai)
• Kan-on: でい (dei, Jōyō)
• Kun: どろ (doro, 泥, Jōyō); なずむ (nazumu, 泥む)^{←なづむ (nadumu, 泥む, historical)}

泥(どろ) • (doro) 

1. mud

• 泥沼(どろぬま) (doronuma): bog
• 泥(どろ)仕(じ)合(あい) (dorojiai): mudslinging

From Middle Chinese 泥 (MC nej|nejH). Recorded as Middle Korean 니 (ni) (Yale: ni) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource 泥 (eumhun 진흙 니 (jinheuk ni), South Korea 진흙 이 (jinheuk i))

1. Hanja form^? of 니/이 (“mud; dirt”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

泥: Hán Nôm readings: nề, nê, nệ, nè, nể, nễ, nơi

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