暱

See also: 昵

暱 U+66B1, 暱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66B1 ← 暰 [U+66B0] CJK Unified Ideographs 暲 → [U+66B2]

Translingual

Han character

暱 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日尸廿口 (ASTR), four-corner 6101₆, composition ⿰日匿)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 499, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14132
• Dae Jaweon: page 868, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1528, character 4
• Unihan data for U+66B1

Chinese

trad.		暱
simp.		昵*
alternative forms		嫟 ancient 昵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 暱
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (匿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
暱	*niɡ
慝	*n̥ʰɯːɡ
匿	*nɯɡ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“to be near, close”). Cognate with Burmese နီး (ni:, “near”) and Tibetan ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nì (ni⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nik¹, nik⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): li̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nì
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nì
    • Wade–Giles: ni⁴
    • Yale: nì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nih
    • Palladius: ни (ni)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: nik¹, nik⁶
    • Yale: nīk, nihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nik⁷, nik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nig¹, nig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɪk̚⁵/, /nɪk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: li̍t
    • Tâi-lô: li̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lit
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lit̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lit̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lit̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: nrit

Rime
Character	暱
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	質 (49)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尼質切
Baxter	nrit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/niet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳjit̚/
Li Rong	/njĕt̚/
Wang Li	/nĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ni̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n<r>ik/

  (Zhengzhang): /*niɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	暱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nì
Middle Chinese	‹ nrit ›
Old Chinese	/*n<r>ik/
English	close, intimate
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	暱
Reading #	1/1
No.	9479
Phonetic component	匿
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	暱
Old Chinese	/*niɡ/

Definitions

暱

1. intimate, close, familiar

   • 公曰：“不義不暱，厚將崩。” [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     公曰：“不义不昵，厚将崩。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Gōng yuē: “Bù yì bù nì, hòu jiāng bēng.” [Pinyin]

     The lord said: "Not righteous (towards his lord) and not close (to his elder brother), when he expands his territory, he will fall."

2. to approach

Compounds

• 暱愛／昵爱
• 暱稱／昵称 (nìchēng)
• 狎暱／狎昵
• 私暱／私昵
• 親暱／亲昵 (qīnnì)

 

Japanese

Kanji

暱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にち (nichi); ね (ne); ねい (nei)
• Kan-on: じつ (jitsu); でい (dei)
• Kun: ちかづく (chikazuku, 暱く)^{←ちかづく (tikaduku, 暱く, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

暱 • (nil>il) (hangeul 닐>일, revised nil>il, McCune–Reischauer nil>il, Yale nil>il)

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Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• 昵 (nặc)

Han character

暱: Hán Việt readings: nặc

1. chữ Hán form of nặc (“intimate; close”).