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蘖

niè

Character

What 蘖 means

1. new shoot growing from cut branch or stump

Words starting with 蘖

• 蘖枝niè zhībranch stem

Words containing 蘖

• 分蘖fēn nièto tiller; to produce secondary shoots (in cereal crops); tiller…

Sounds the same

Read niè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 涅(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye); (literary) to dye black
• 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
• 摰to seize with the hand; to grasp; to advance
• 陧dangerous