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尼あま

尼あま U+5C3C, 尼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C3C
← 尻しり
[U+5C3B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尽つき →
[U+5C3D]

Translingual

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Stroke order
 

Han character

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尼あま (Kangxi radical 44, 尸しかばね+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸しかばね心こころ (SP), four-corner 77211, composition ⿸尸しかばね匕)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7635
  • Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 965, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5C3C

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 尼あま
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   
Characters in the same phonetic series (尼あま) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
泥どろ *niːl, *niːls
屔 *niːl
苨 *niːlʔ
坭 *niːlʔ
迡 *niːls
埿 *braːms, *niːl, *niːls
旎 *nilʔ
狔 *nilʔ
抳 *nilʔ
尼あま *nil
呢 *nil
怩 *nil
柅 *nil, *nilʔ
蚭 *nil
跜 *nil
秜 *nil
痆 *rniːd
昵 *niɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意かいい／会意かいい) . The character does not appear as an independent character in the oracle bone script but appears as a component of 𢓚 and 秜. The character shows a man (尸しかばね) sitting on or leaning on another man (匕), giving the original meaning of “to stop” or “close; intimate”; the derivative 昵 refers to the latter meaning.

Shuowen Jiezi considered it as a phono-sematic compound, but this is widely discredited by later scholars.

Compare 化か, 比ひ, 北きた, and 卬.

Etymology 1

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trad. 尼あま
simp. # 尼あま
"Buddhist nun"

Clipping of 比丘尼びくに (bǐqiūní), from Sanskrit भिक्षुणी (bhikṣuṇī, “female beggar”) or Pali bhikkhunī (“female beggar”). Compare Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣu, “beggar”).

Pronunciation

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Note: nai4 - vernacular variant.
Note: lûi - used in 尼あま姑しゅうと.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 尼あま
Mandarin Beijing /ni³⁵/
Harbin /ni²⁴/
Tianjin /ni⁴⁵/
Jinan /ȵi⁴²/
Qingdao /ni⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ni⁴²/
Xi'an /ni²⁴/
Xining /mji²⁴/
Yinchuan /mi⁵³/
/ni⁵³/
Lanzhou /ȵi⁵³/
Ürümqi /ȵi⁵¹/
Wuhan /ni²¹³/
Chengdu /ȵi³¹/
Guiyang /ni²¹/
Kunming /ni³¹/
Nanjing /li²⁴/
Hefei /zz̩⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ni¹¹/
Pingyao /ȵi¹³/
Hohhot /ni³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ȵi²³/
Suzhou /ȵi¹³/
Hangzhou /ȵi²¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵi³¹/
Hui Shexian /ni⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ȵie⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ȵi¹³/
Xiangtan /ȵi¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ȵi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ni¹¹/
Taoyuan /ni¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nei²¹/
Nanning /nɐi²¹/
Hong Kong /nei²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ni³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /nɛ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ni²¹/
/mi³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /nĩ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ni³¹/
/ni²¹³/ 俗ぞく
Rime
Character 尼あま
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲こえ) 娘むすめ (12)
Final (韻いん) 脂あぶら (17)
Tone (調しらべ) Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい) Open
Division (等ひとし) III
Fanqie 女おんな夷えびす切きり
Baxter nrij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɳˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɳᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/niɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɳji/
Li
Rong 		/nji/
Wang
Li 		/ni/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ni/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ní
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nei4

Definitions

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尼あま

  1. Used in transcription.
    尼あま日ひ  ―  Nírì  ―  Niger
    尼あま加か拉ひしげ瓜ふり  ―  Níjiālāguā  ―  Nicaragua
    悉尼あま  ―  Xīní  ―  Sydney
    尼あま斯湖  ―  Nísīhú  ―  Loch Ness
    尼あま古丁ふるちょう  ―  nígǔdīng  ―  nicotine
    尼あま龍りゅう／尼あま龙  ―  nílóng  ―  nylon
    比ひ基もと尼あま  ―  bǐjīní  ―  bikini
    尼あま古こ拉ひしげ·特とく斯拉  ―  Nígǔlā Tèsīlā  ―  Nicola Tesla
    尼あま爾しか·杭くい思おもえ朗ろう／尼あま尔·杭くい思おもえ朗ろう  ―  Ní'ěr Hángsīlǎng  ―  Niel Armstrong
    1. Buddhist nun
    2. Short for 尼あま泊はく爾なんじ／尼あま泊はく尔 (Níbó'ěr, “Nepal”).
      中なか尼あま邊あたり界かい／中なか尼あま边界  ―  Zhōng Ní biānjiè  ―  China-Nepal border

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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trad. 尼あま
simp. # 尼あま

Unknown. Possibly a variant of 邇 (OC *njelʔ, “near”) (compare Mandarin 你 (nǐ) from 爾なんじ (OC *njelʔ)), or a conflation of 邇 (OC *njelʔ, “near”) and 昵 (OC *niɡ) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 尼あま
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲こえ) 娘むすめ (12)
Final (韻いん) 脂あぶら (17)
Tone (調しらべ) Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい) Open
Division (等ひとし) III
Fanqie 女おんな夷えびす切きり
Baxter nrij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɳˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɳᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/niɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɳji/
Li
Rong 		/nji/
Wang
Li 		/ni/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ni/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ní
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nei4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尼あま
Reading # 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		ní
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nrij ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nr[əj]/
English near, close

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 尼あま
Reading # 1/1
No. 9428
Phonetic
component 		尼あま
Rime
group 		脂あぶら
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		尼あま
Old
Chinese 		/*nil/

Definitions

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尼あま

  1. † near; close; intimate
  2. † peaceful; calm
  3. † harmonious

Etymology 3

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trad. 尼あま
simp. # 尼あま

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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 尼あま
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲こえ) 娘むすめ (12)
Final (韻いん) 脂あぶら (17)
Tone (調しらべ) Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい) Open
Division (等ひとし) III
Fanqie 女おんな夷えびす切きり
Baxter nrij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɳˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɳᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/niɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɳji/
Li
Rong 		/nji/
Wang
Li 		/ni/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ni/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ní
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nei4

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尼あま

  1. a surname

Etymology 4

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trad. 尼あま
simp. # 尼あま

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-njal (“to sleep; to lie down”) (Sagart, 2004) while inheriting a *-t applicative suffix (Jacques, 2016a), since Middle Chinese sources quote the fanqie 女おんな乙おつ切きり or /*ɳit̚/ (The Jingdian Shiwen section for the quotation from Mencius; see below). The stem word can be compared with the Tibetan ཉལ་པ (nyal pa, “to lie down; to go to sleep; to dwell”), and possibly with the Tangut 𗱩 (*njwij¹, “to obstruct; to obscure; to choke up”). See also 柅 (OC *nil, *nilʔ, “stopper”) attested in the Zhou Yi.

Pronunciation

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Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尼あま 尼あま
Reading # 1/3 2/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		ní ní
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nejX › ‹ nejH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nˁərʔ/ /*nˁərʔ-s/
English to stop to stop, obstruct

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

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尼あま

  1. (literary) to stop; to obstruct

Compounds

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Etymology 5

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trad. 尼あま
simp. # 尼あま
alternative forms 乃
倷

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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尼あま

  1. (Taishanese) a few; a little bit; some
  2. (Taishanese) the; those
  3. (Taishanese) more; -er
Synonyms
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Dialectal synonyms of 些 (“some, a few”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 些
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 些
Singapore 些
Cantonese Guangzhou 啲
Hong Kong 啲
Taishan 尼あま
Singapore (Guangfu) 啲
Hakka Meixian 兜かぶと
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 兜かぶと
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 兜かぶと
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 兜かぶと
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 兜かぶと
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 兜かぶと
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 兜かぶと
Southern Min Xiamen 寡
Zhangzhou 寡
Tainan 寡
Singapore (Hokkien) 寡
Manila (Hokkien) 寡
Shantou 撮つまみ
Jieyang 撮つまみ
Singapore (Teochew) 撮つまみ
Wu Shanghai 眼め, 點てん, 些 formal or Mandarin-influenced
Wenzhou 厘りん兒じ

Etymology 6

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trad. 尼あま
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Pronunciation

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尼あま

  1. (Leizhou Min) Prefix in non-face-to-face kinship terms.

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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尼あま

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

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  • Go-on: に (ni, Jōyō)、ねい (nei)
  • Kan-on: じ (ji)、でい (dei)
  • Kun: あま (ama, 尼あま, Jōyō)

Compounds

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
尼あま
あま
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Probably ultimately from Pali amma (“mother; woman”).[1][2]

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Noun

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尼あま(あま) • (ama) 

  1. nun
  2. (derogatory) woman
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
尼あま
あま
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Clipping of アマゾン (Amazon, “Amazon.com Inc”).

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Proper noun

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尼あま(あま) • (Ama) 

  1. (Internet slang, dated) Amazon (Amazon.com Inc)
    • 2019 December 19, 闇やみ陰かげひかる@騎士きし団長だんちょう兼任けんにん提督ていとく, Twitter‎[1]:
      あ、空そら(くう)戦せん(せん)アルト売うれ(う)ってる（´・ωおめが・`）でも明日あした(あす)尼あま(あま)から届とどけ(とど)くから
      A, kūsen-Aruto utteru (´ ωおめが `) demo asu Ama kara todoku kara
      Ah, aerial combat version of Alt is sold :( but I'll get it from Amazon tomorrow
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References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語こくご大だい辞典じてん（新装しんそう版ばん） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林だいじりん (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 尼あま (MC nrij). Recorded as Middle Korean 니 (ni) (Yale: ni) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙くんもう字じ會かい / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Wikisource

尼あま (eumhun 여승 니 (yeoseung ni), word-initial (South Korea) 여승 이 (yeoseung i))

  1. hanja form? of 니/이 (“a Buddhist nun”)

Compounds

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Compounds

References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際こくさい退すさ溪けい學會がっかい 大邱たいきゅう慶けい北きた支部しぶ) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子でんし字典じてん. [2]

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Han character

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尼あま: Hán Nôm readings: ni, này, nê, nơi, nầy, nì

  1. place
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