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孽

niè

Character

What 孽 means

1. son born of a concubine
2. disaster
3. sin
4. evil

Other readings

孽 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• nièvariant of {孽|niè}

Words starting with 孽

• 孽报niè bàobad karma
• 孽子niè zǐunfilial son; unworthy son; illegitimate son
• 孽畜niè chùevil creature (multipurpose curse); evil domestic animal
• 孽种niè zhǒngbane of one's existence; vile spawn
• 孽缘niè yuánill-fated relationship
• 孽障niè zhàngevil creature
• 孽海花Niè hǎi huāA Flower in a Sinful Sea, late-Qing novel by Jin Tianhe 金天翮

Words containing 孽

• 罪孽zuì nièsin; crime; wrongdoing
• 作孽zuò nièto sin
• 造孽zào nièto do evil; to commit sins
• 余孽yú nièremaining evil element; surviving members (of an evil former regime)…
• 自作孽zì zuò nièto bring disaster on oneself
• 天灾地孽tiān zāi dì niècatastrophes and unnatural phenomena; Heaven-sent warnings
• 妖孽yāo nièevildoer
• 残渣余孽cán zhā yú nièevil elements who have escaped eradication
• 冤孽yuān nièsin (in Buddhism); enmity leading to sin

Characters that look like 孽

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 馨xīnfragrant
• 攀pānto climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status
• 瞿qústartled; Taiwan pr. jù
• 靡míto waste (money)
• 藜líname of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album
• 鬃zōngbristles; horse's mane

Sounds the same

Read niè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 涅(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye); (literary) to dye black
• 聂to whisper
• 镊(bound form) tweezers; to use tweezers…
• 镍nickel (chemistry)
• 啮to gnaw; to erode
• 蹑to walk on tiptoe; to walk quietly; to tread (on)
• 颞bones of the temple (on the human head); see 颞颥, temple
• 嗫move the mouth as in speaking
• 臬guidepost; rule; standard
• 蘖new shoot growing from cut branch or stump
• 摰to seize with the hand; to grasp; to advance
• 陧dangerous