倪

倪	U+502A, 倪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-502A

← 倩
[U+5029]

CJK Unified Ideographs

倫 →
[U+502B]

Translingual

Han character

倪 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人竹X山 (OHXU), four-corner 2721₇, composition ⿰亻兒)

References

KangXi: page 109, character 2

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 792

Dae Jaweon: page 231, character 11

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 179, character 9

Unihan data for U+502A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		倪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倪

**Small seal script**
s05811

**Transcribed ancient scripts**
L02269	L02270

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (兒) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
掜	rŋeː, ŋeːʔ
誽	*rŋeː
倪	*ŋeː
蜺	ŋeː, ŋeː
霓	ŋeː, ŋeːs, *ŋeː
郳	*ŋeː
齯	*ŋeː
婗	*ŋeː
輗	*ŋeː
棿	*ŋeː
猊	*ŋeː
麑	*ŋeː
貎	*ŋeː
鯢	*ŋeː
兒	ŋeː, ŋje
觬	ŋeː, ŋeːʔ
堄	ŋeːʔ, ŋeːs
晲	*ŋeːʔ
睨	*ŋeːs
唲	*ŋje
隉	*ŋeːd
鶂	*ŋeːɡ
鬩	*ɦŋeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋeː) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ní (ni²)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁴
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): gê

(Teochew, Peng'im): ngi⁵ / ghoi⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: ní
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
  - Wade–Giles: nih²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
  - IPA ^(key): /ni³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ngai⁴
  - Yale: ngàih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gê
  - Tâi-lô: gê
  - Phofsit Daibuun: gee
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ge²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ge²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ge¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ge²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ge²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ngi⁵ / ghoi⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngî / gôi
  - IPA ^(key): /ŋi⁵⁵/, /ɡoi⁵⁵/

Note: ghoi5 - surname.

Middle Chinese: /ŋei/▼

Rime
Character	倪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	五稽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋei/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋei/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɛj/
Li Rong	/ŋei/
Wang Li	/ŋiei/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤe/

(Zhengzhang): /*ŋeː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	倪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ní
Middle Chinese	‹ ngej ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋˤe/
English	young and weak
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	倪
Reading #	1/1
No.	2736
Phonetic component	兒
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	倪
Old Chinese	/*ŋeː/

Definitions

倪

^† small child
^† small and weak
^† origin; beginning
^† bound; limit; extremity
^† to differentiate
(Wu) I; we
A surname.

Compounds

天倪

旄倪

端倪 (duānní)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nì (ni⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: nì
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˋ
  - Wade–Giles: nih⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nih
  - IPA ^(key): /ni⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ngai⁶
  - Yale: ngaih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²²/

Definitions

倪

Alternative form of 睨 (nì, “to look sideways; to squint”).

Compounds

俾倪

Japanese

Kanji

倪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

small child
edge, limit, boundary

Readings

Goon: げ (ge)
Kan’on: げい (gei)
Kun: きわ (kiwa)

Compounds

天倪 (あまがつ) (amagatsu)
端 (たん)倪 (げい) (tangei)

Korean

Hanja

倪 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倪 (nghê, hầu)

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