Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- niè
English
- blacken
- (literary) alunite (formerly used as a black dye)
- black mud, slime
- (literary) to dye black
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 涅
- 涅槃nip6 pun4
(Buddhism) (loanword from Sanskrit) to achieve nirvana (extinction of desire and pain); to die (abbr. for 涅槃那[nie4 pan2 na4])
- 入涅jap6 nip6
to enter nirvana (Buddhism)
- 涅石nip6 sek6
alumen
- 涅瓦nip6 ngaa5
the Nyeva or Neva river (through St Petersburg)
- 羽涅jyu5 nip6
alumen
- 涅磐nip6 pun4
variant of 涅槃[nie4 pan2]
- 涅白nip6 baak6
opaque white
- 海涅hoi2 nip6
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet
- 涅盤nip6 pun4
- 涅瓦河nip6 ngaa5 ho4
Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg)
- 涅槃經nip6 pun4 ging1
(Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra
- 涅盤經nip6 pun4 ging1
- 格涅沙gaak3 nip6 saa1
Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)
- 羅斯涅夫lo4 si1 nip6 fu1
Rosneft (Russian state oil company)
- 埃涅阿斯oi1 nip6 aa3 si1
Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid
- 頓涅斯克deon6 nip6 si1 hak1
Donetsk region of W. Ukraine
- 波洛涅斯bo1 lok3 nip6 si1
(name) Polonius
- 頓涅茨克deon6 nip6 ci4 hak1
Donetsk, city in Ukraine
- 康涅狄格hong1 nip6 dik6 gaak3
Connecticut, US state
- 屠格涅夫tou4 gaak3 nip6 fu1
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian novelist
- 埃涅阿斯紀oi1 nip6 aa3 si1 gei2
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
- 勃列日涅夫but6 lit6 jat6 nip6 fu1
Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1966-1982
- 大本涅槃經daai6 bun2 nip6 pun4 ging1
(Buddhism) the Nirvana Sutra
- 大般涅槃經daai6 bun1 nip6 pun4 ging1
(Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant, influential in the development of East Asian Buddhism