暱

暱

See also: 昵

暱 U+66B1, 暱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66B1 ← 暰 [U+66B0] CJK Unified Ideographs 暲 → [U+66B2]

Translingual

Han character

暱 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日尸廿口 (ASTR), four-corner 6101₆, composition ⿰日匿)

References

• KangXi: page 499, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14132
• Dae Jaweon: page 868, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1528, character 4
• Unihan data for U+66B1

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Chinese

trad.		暱
simp.		昵*
alternative forms		嫟 ancient 昵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 暱
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (匿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
暱	*niɡ
慝	*n̥ʰɯːɡ
匿	*nɯɡ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“to be near, close”). Cognate with Burmese နီး (ni:, “near”) and Tibetan ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nì (ni⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nik¹, nik⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): li̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nì
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nì
    • Wade–Giles: ni⁴
    • Yale: nì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nih
    • Palladius: ни (ni)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: nik¹, nik⁶
    • Yale: nīk, nihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nik⁷, nik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nig¹, nig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɪk̚⁵/, /nɪk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: li̍t
    • Tâi-lô: li̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lit
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lit̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lit̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lit̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɳˠiɪt̚/

Rime
Character	暱
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	眞 (49)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尼質切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/niet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳjit̚/
Li Rong	/njĕt̚/
Wang Li	/nĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ni̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n<r>ik/

  (Zhengzhang): /*niɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	暱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nì
Middle Chinese	‹ nrit ›
Old Chinese	/*n<r>ik/
English	close, intimate
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	暱
Reading #	1/1
No.	9479
Phonetic component	匿
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	暱
Old Chinese	/*niɡ/

Definitions

暱

1. intimate, close, familiar

   • 公曰：“不義不暱，厚將崩。” [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     公曰：“不义不昵，厚将崩。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Gōng yuē: “Bù yì bù nì, hòu jiāng bēng.” [Pinyin]

     The lord said: "Not righteous (towards his lord) and not close (to his elder brother), when he expands his territory, he will fall."

2. to approach

Compounds

暱愛／昵爱 暱稱／昵称 (nìchēng)

狎暱／狎昵 私暱／私昵

親暱／亲昵 (qīnnì)

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Japanese

Kanji

暱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にち (nichi); ね (ne); ねい (nei)
• Kan-on: じつ (jitsu); でい (dei)
• Kun: ちかづく (chikazuku, 暱く)^{←ちかづく (tikaduku, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

暱 • (nil>il) (hangeul 닐>일, revised nil>il, McCune–Reischauer nil>il, Yale nil>il)

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Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• 昵 (nặc)[1]

Han character

暱: Hán Việt readings: nặc[1]

1. chữ Hán form of nặc (“intimate; close”).

References

1. Trần (2004).