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niè

Meanings

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niè
  1. 1.(literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye)
  2. 2.(literary) to dye black
niè
  1. 1.variant of 涅[niè]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.black mud
  2. 2.melanterite
  3. 3.black
  4. 4.to dye black; to blacken

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *niːɡ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + semantic 土 (“soil”) + phonetic 日 (OC *njiɡ). ; "black mud"

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Components

涅氵圼

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Derived terms

密涅瓦涅伏涅字涅槃涅槃經涅槃经涅槃罪度涅白涅而不緇涅而不缁涅面涅齒涅齿

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Related words

涅磐 variant of 涅槃[niè pán]羽涅 alumen海涅 Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet涅白 opaque white涅瓦 the Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg)入涅 to enter nirvana (Buddhism)涅槃 (Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) to achieve nirvana (extinction of desire and pain); to die (abbr. for 涅槃那[niè pán nà])涅石 alumen格涅沙 Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)涅瓦河 Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg)涅槃经 (Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra罗斯涅夫 Rosneft (Russian state oil company)