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溺

nì

Character

What 溺 means

1. to drown
2. to indulge
3. addicted to
4. to spoil (a child)

Other readings

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

• niàovariant of {尿|niào}

Example sentences

• 他溺水而亡。
  He drowned.
• 她差点就溺水了。
  She came near to drowning.
• 有几个船员溺水而亡。
  Some of the crew were drowned.
• 他试图在浴缸里溺死。
  He tried to drown himself in his bathtub.
• 他救了一个溺水的男孩。
  Tā jiù le yī gè nìshuǐ de nánhái.
  He rescued a boy from drowning.
• 那个溺水的男人抓紧了绳子。
  Nàge nìshuǐ de nánrén zhuājǐn le shéngzi.
  The drowning man grasped at the rope.

Words starting with 溺

• 溺爱nì àito spoil; to pamper; to dote on
• 溺水nì shuǐto drown
• 溺死nì sǐto drown
• 溺亡nì wángto drown
• 溺婴nì yīngto drown a newborn baby (as method of infanticide)
• 溺职nì zhíto neglect one's duty; dereliction of duty

Words containing 溺

• 沉溺chén nì(fig.) to indulge in; to wallow in (addiction, vice etc); (literary) to sink into water
• 便溺biàn niàoto urinate or defecate; urine and feces
• 宠溺chǒng nìto spoil; to indulge
• 耽溺dān nìto indulge in; to wallow in
• 自溺zì nìto drown oneself
• 遇溺yù nì(Hong Kong) to get into difficulties (in the sea or a swimming pool etc)

Characters that look like 溺

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

• 解jiěto divide; to break up; to split
• 割gēto cut; to cut apart
• 颗kēclassifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc
• 鹑chún(bound form) quail
• 弼bìto assist

Sounds the same

Read nì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 逆contrary; opposite; backwards
• 腻greasy; soft; unctuous
• 泥restrained
• 匿to hide
• 昵familiar; intimate; to approach
• 睨to look askance at
• 伲(dialect) I; my; we
• 衵women's undergarments
• 堄parapet
• 惄distressed; famished
• 秜early-maturing rice
• 氼old variant of 溺