ne

interrogative or emphatic final

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. (mouth) indicates that the character is only "mouthed", i.e. only used for its phonetic value.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

尼 sound component

  Sound component

  

Buddhist nun

Definitions

 

ne

interrogative or emphatic final; (Cant.) this; particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?"); particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?"); particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?"); (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action; particle indicating strong affirmation

 

woolen material

Most common words with 呢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

particle indicating strong affirmation

着呢

quite

呢子

woolen cloth

呢喃

whispering

花呢

tweed

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.2472% of movies

104th most common character in movies

383rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5462


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