溺 — Chinese character
溺
nì
to spoil, to pamper, to indulge; to drown
- Pinyin
- nì
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 氵 弱
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 弱
- Japanese
- 溺 as a kanji
Common words with 溺
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 溺水 | nì shuǐ | to drown |
| 溺爱 (溺愛) | nì ài | to spoil; to pamper |
| 溺死 | nì sǐ | to drown |
| 沉溺 (沈溺) | chén nì | variant of 沉溺 (chén nì) |
| 沉溺 | chén nì | (fig.) to indulge in; to wallow in (addiction, vice etc); (literary) to sink into water |
| 溺亡 | nì wáng | to drown |
| 便溺 | biàn niào | to urinate or defecate; urine and feces |
| 耽溺 | dān nì | to indulge in; to wallow in |
| 遇溺 | yù nì | (HK) to get into difficulties (in the sea or a swimming pool etc) |
| 宠溺 (寵溺) | chǒng nì | to spoil; to indulge |
| 溺婴 (溺嬰) | nì yīng | to drown a newborn baby (as method of infanticide) |
| 自溺 | zì nì | to drown oneself |
English words written with 溺
溺 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Mencius 11 · Zhuangzi 9
- Analects 18.6
- Mencius 1A.5
- Mencius 4A.9
- Mencius 4A.17
- Mencius 4B.29
- Mencius 6A.7
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
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