feeble

A young child 

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

兒 meaning component

  Meaning component

érr

  

son

Evolution

倪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
倪 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
倪 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
倪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

feeble, tiny, young and weak; (literary) small child; limit; bound; extremity; to differentiate; origin; cause

 

surname Ni

Most common words with 倪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

端倪

boundary

limit

倪嗣冲

Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire

倪桂珍

Ni Guizhen or Ni Kwei-Tseng (1869 - 1931), mother of Song Ailing 宋藹齡|宋蔼龄[Sòng​Aǐ​líng], Song Qingling 宋慶齡|宋庆龄[Sòng​Qìng​líng] and Song Meiling 宋美齡|宋美龄[Sòng​Měi​líng]

不可端倪

unfathomable

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋˤe

ngej

young and weak


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3257th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+502A

Shuowen

“倪,俾也。从人,兒聲。”


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