泥 — Chinese character
泥
ní
mud, earth, clay; plaster, paste
- Pinyin
- ní
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 尼
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 尼
- Japanese
- 泥 as a kanji
Common words with 泥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水泥 | shuǐ ní | cement; measure word: 袋 (dài) |
| 泥土 | ní tǔ | earth; soil; mud; clay |
| 泥沙 | ní shā | silt |
| 草泥马 (草泥馬) | cǎo ní mǎ | see 肏你妈 (cào nǐ mā) (near homophone used to avoid Internet censorship); (Internet slang) fictional alpaca-like animal; by extension, an actual alpaca |
| 泥泞 (泥濘) | ní nìng | muddy; mud |
| 泥巴 | ní ba | (coll.) mud |
| 污泥 | wū ní | mud; sludge |
| 淤泥 | yū ní | silt; sludge |
| 泥石流 | ní shí liú | landslide; torrent of mud and stones |
| 烂泥 (爛泥) | làn ní | mud; mire |
| 泥浆 (泥漿) | ní jiāng | slurry; mud |
| 泥潭 | ní tán | quagmire |
English words written with 泥
泥 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 3 · Zhuangzi 2
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.