niè
tread
To walk 足 quietly 聂; 聂 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 蹑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to walk quietly on tiptoe (idiom) | ||
to follow | ||
to walk on tiptoe | ||
to follow along behind sb (formal writing) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3665th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8E51 |
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