霓 — Chinese character
霓
ní
rainbow; colorful, variegated
- Pinyin
- ní
- Radical
- 173 ⾬ (Rain)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 雨 兒
- Formation
- ideographic — The child 兒 of a rain cloud 雨
- Japanese
- 霓 as a kanji
Common words with 霓
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 霓虹 | ní hóng | (loanword) neon lights (abbr. for 霓虹灯 (ní hóng dēng)); (literary) rainbow |
| 霓虹灯 (霓虹燈) | ní hóng dēng | (loanword) neon lights |
| 霓裳 | ní cháng | nichang, rainbow colored clothes worn by the Eight Immortals 八仙 (Bā xiān) |
霓 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
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.