黏

See also: 粘

黏	U+9ECF, 黏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ECF

← 黎
[U+9ECE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

黐 →
[U+9ED0]

Translingual

Han character

黏 (Kangxi radical 202, 黍+5, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹水卜口 (HEYR), four-corner 2116₀, composition ⿰黍占)

References

KangXi: page 1518, character 5

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48007

Dae Jaweon: page 2050, character 12

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4760, character 11

Unihan data for U+9ECF

Chinese

trad.		黏
simp. ^#		黏
alternative forms		粘

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
頕	*taːm
煔	ɦlaːm, hljems, *hl'eːms
炶	*ɦlaːm
詀	rteːm, rdeːms, teːm, tʰjeb
站	*rteːms
檆	*sreːm
黏	*nem
粘	*nem
枮	slem, ʔl'ɯm
霑	*tem
沾	tem, teːms, *tʰeːm
覘	tems, tʰem
鉆	tʰem, ɡrem, *tʰeːb
占	ʔljem, tjems
颭	*tjemʔ
佔	tjems, teːm
苫	hljem, hljems
痁	hljem, teːms
蛅	*njem
阽	*lem
敁	*teːm
掂	*tiːm
點	*teːmʔ
玷	teːmʔ, teːms
店	*tiːms
坫	tiːms, tim
黇	*tʰeːm
扂	*deːmʔ
拈	*neːm
鮎	*neːm
砧	*ʔl'ɯm
笘	*teːb
跕	teːb, tʰeːb
貼	*tʰeːb
帖	*tʰeːb
怗	*tʰeːb
呫	*tʰeːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nem) : semantic 黍 + phonetic 占 (OC *ʔljem, *tjems).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nián (nian²)
(Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): nim⁴, nim¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): ngiàm
(Meixian, Guangdong): ngiam²
Min Nan (POJ): liâm
Wu (Wiktionary): 'nyi (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: nián
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: nián
  - Wade–Giles: nien²
  - Yale: nyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nian
  - Palladius: нянь (njanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /njɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: nim⁴, nim¹
  - Yale: nìhm, nīm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: nim⁴, nim¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: nim⁴, nim¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /niːm²¹/, /niːm⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngiàm
  - Hakka Romanization System: ngiamˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ngiam²
  - Sinological IPA: /ɲi̯am¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: ngiam²
  - Sinological IPA: /ɲiam¹¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liâm
  - Tâi-lô: liâm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liaam
  - IPA (Xiamen): /liam²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liam²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liam¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liam²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liam²³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: 'nyi (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʔn̠ʲi⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /ɳˠiᴇm/

Rime
Character	黏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	鹽 (154)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	女廉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/niæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳjiam/
Li Rong	/njɛm/
Wang Li	/nĭɛm/
Bernard Karlgren	/ni̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nián
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nim⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*nem/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	黏
Reading #	1/1
No.	16698
Phonetic component	占
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	黏
Old Chinese	/*nem/

Definitions

黏

sticky; glutinous
to adhere; to stick
黏塊膠布／黏块胶布 [Cantonese] ― nim⁴ faai³ gaau¹ bou³ [Jyutping] ― to put on a band-aid

Synonyms

(Sichuanese) 膩／腻 (nyi4)
(Cantonese) 黐 (ci1)

Compounds

口腔黏膜
失黏
惹草黏花
手黏
模黏
黏人
黏住
黏合 (niánhé)
黏土 (niántǔ)
黏度 (niándù)
黏性
黏油 (niányóu)

黏涎
黏涎子
黏涎答答
黏液 (niányè)
黏稠 (niánchóu)
黏答答
黏糊 (niánhu)
黏膜 (niánmó)
黏著 (niánzhuó)
黏著力
黏附 (niánfù)

鼻黏膜
發黏／发黏
紙黏土／纸黏土
頰黏膜／颊黏膜
黏合劑／黏合剂 (niánhéjì)
黏巴達／黏巴达
黏結／黏结
黏膠／黏胶
黏著劑／黏著剂 (niánzhuójì)
黏貼／黏贴 (niántiē)
黏質／黏质

References

“黏”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

黏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ねん (nen)

Kun: ねばる (nebaru)

Korean

Hanja

黏 • (jeom) (hangeul 점)

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Vietnamese

Han character

黏: Hán Nôm readings: niêm

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