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涅

niè

Character

What 涅 means

1. literaryalunite (formerly used as a black dye)
2. literaryto dye black

Other readings

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

• nièvariant of {涅|niè}

Example sentences

• 卫塞节是佛教的一个节日，纪念佛陀的诞生、成道和涅槃。
  Wèi sāi jiē shì Fójiào de yī gè jiérì, jìniàn Fótuó de dànshēng, chéngdào hé nièpán.
  Vesak is a Buddhist holiday which celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha.

Words starting with 涅

• 涅瓦Niè wǎthe Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg)
• 涅白niè báiopaque white
• 涅石niè shíalumen; alunite (TCM)
• 涅瓦河Niè wǎ HéNyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg)
• 涅槃niè pán(Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) to achieve nirvana (extinction of desire and pain)…
• 涅槃经Niè pán Jīng(Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra
• 涅磐niè pánvariant of 涅槃

Words containing 涅

• 海涅Hǎi nièHeinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet
• 入涅rù nièto enter nirvana (Buddhism)
• 格涅沙Gé niè shāGanesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)
• 埃涅阿斯Āi niè ā sīAeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid
• 屠格涅夫Tú gé niè fūIvan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
• 沃罗涅日Wò luó niè rìVoronezh, city in the southwest of European Russia
• 波洛涅斯Bō luò niè sī(name) Polonius; Shakespearean character, father of Ophelia, accidentally killed by Hamlet
• 罗斯涅夫Luó sī niè fūRosneft (Russian state oil company)
• 顿涅斯克Dùn niè sī kèDonetsk region of W. Ukraine
• 顿涅茨克Dùn niè cí kèDonetsk, city in Ukraine
• 勃列日涅夫Bó liè rì niè fūLeonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party…
• 埃涅阿斯纪Āi niè ā sī JìVirgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
• 菲涅耳透镜Fēi niè ěr tòu jìngFresnel lens
• 奥腊涅斯塔德Ào là niè sī tǎ déOranjestad, capital of Aruba 阿鲁巴
• 羽涅yǔ nièalumen; alunite (TCM)
• 康涅狄格Kāng niè dí géConnecticut, US state
• 大本涅槃经Dà běn Niè pán Jīng(Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra
• 大般涅槃经Dà Bān niè pán Jīng(Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major…

Characters built on 圼

These share the phonetic component 圼 (), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 捏niēto hold between the thumb and fingers; to pinch; to mold (using the fingers)
• 陧nièdangerous

Characters that look like 涅

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

• 透tòu(bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly…
• 淫yínexcess; excessive; wanton
• 逮dài(literary) to reach; used in 逮捕
• 匿nìto hide
• 渎dúdisrespectful; (literary) ditch
• 渍zìto soak; to be stained; stain

Sounds the same

Read niè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 孽son born of a concubine; disaster; sin
• 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