Chinese Character Wiki

膩

nì

greasy

Components
⺼ meaning component

⺼  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

flesh

貳 sound component

貳  Sound component

èr

  

number two

Evolution

膩 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
膩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

腻 (膩) 

nì

greasy, oily, dirty; smooth; greasy; soft; unctuous; intimate; tired of

Most common words with 膩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

腻

greasy

细腻

exquisite

油腻

grease

猫腻

shenanigans

腻味

tired of

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nri[j]-s

nrijH

nì

oily


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.0365% of movies

2665th most common character in movies

2819th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

腻

Unicode

U+81A9

Shuowen

“膩，上肥也。从肉，貳聲。”


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