niè

tread

To walk  quietly  also provides the pronunciation

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

聶 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

niè

  

whisper

Evolution

躡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
躡 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
躡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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niè

tread, step on; follow, track; to walk on tiptoe; to walk quietly; to tread (on); to follow

Most common words with 躡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蹑手蹑脚

to walk quietly on tiptoe (idiom)

to follow

蹑足

to walk on tiptoe

蹑踪

to follow along behind sb (formal writing)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*nrep

nrjep

niè

trample


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3665th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

25

Simplified

Unicode

U+8EA1

Shuowen

“躡,蹈也。从足,聶聲。”


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