倪
Meanings
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- 1.(literary) small child
- 2.(literary) limit; bound; extremity
- 3.(literary) to differentiate
- 4.(literary) origin; cause
- 1.surname Ni
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Wiktionary
- 1.small child
- 2.small and weak
- 3.origin; beginning
- 4.bound; limit; extremity
- 5.to differentiate
- 6.I; we
- 7.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋeː): semantic 亻 + phonetic 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje).
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Related words
旄倪 variant of 耄倪[mào ní]俾倪 parapet熊倪 Xiong Ni (1974-), Chinese diving athlete端倪 boundary倪匡 Ni Kuang (1935–2022), Chinese novelist and screenwriter耄倪 old and young倪嗣冲 Ni Sichong (1868-1924), general closely linked to Yuan Shikai 袁世凯[Yuán Shì kǎi] during his unsuccessful 1915 bid for Empire倪柝声 Ni Tuosheng or Watchman Nee (1903-1972), influential Chinese Christian倪桂珍 Ni Guizhen or Ni Kwei-Tseng (1869 - 1931), mother of Song Ailing 宋蔼龄[Sòng Ǎi líng], Song Qingling 宋庆龄[Sòng Qìng líng] and Song Meiling 宋美龄[Sòng Měi líng]一窥端倪 to infer easily; to guess at a glance; to get a clue不可端倪 impossible to get even an outline (idiom)狄俄倪索斯 Dionysus, the god of wine in Greek mythology