nì, niào
submerge in water
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 弱 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*nˤewk | nek | nì | to sink in water |
*kə.nˤewk-s | newH | niào | urine |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.1006% of movies
2557th most common character in movies
3291st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+6EBA |
Shuowen | “溺,水。自張掖刪丹西至酒泉合黎,餘波入于流沙。从水,弱聲。桑欽所說。” |
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