涅 — Chinese character
涅
niè
to blacken; slime, black mud
- Pinyin
- niè
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 氵 圼
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 圼
- Japanese
- 涅 as a kanji
Common words with 涅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 涅槃 | niè pán | (Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) to achieve nirvana (extinction of desire and pain); to die (abbr. for 涅槃那 (niè pán nà)) |
| 入涅 | rù niè | to enter nirvana (Buddhism) |
| 涅白 | niè bái | opaque white |
| 涅石 | niè shí | alumen; alunite (TCM) |
| 涅磐 | niè pán | variant of 涅槃 (niè pán) |
| 羽涅 | yǔ niè | alumen; alunite (TCM) |
涅 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 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.