讷 — Chinese character
讷
nè
inarticulate, slow; to mumble, to stammer
- Pinyin
- nè
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 讠 内
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 讠; sound component 内
- Traditional
- 訥
Common words with 讷
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 木讷 (木訥) | mù nè | wooden and slow of speech; slow-speeched |
| 讷讷 (訥訥) | nè nè | (of speech) indistinct; mumbling |
| 木讷寡言 (木訥寡言) | mù nè guǎ yán | honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom) |
| 刚毅木讷 (剛毅木訥) | gāng yì mù nè | resolute and taciturn (idiom) |
| 口讷 (口訥) | kǒu nè | (literary) inarticulate |
| 讷涩 (訥澀) | nè sè | clumsy in speech; tongue tied |
| 迂讷 (迂訥) | yū nè | overcautious; conservative and dull in conversation |
English words written with 讷
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.