呢

呢 (radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口尸心 (RSP), four-corner 6701₁, composition ⿰口尼)

• KangXi: page 181, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3430
• Dae Jaweon: page 399, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 609, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5462

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nil) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 尼 (OC *nil)

呢

1. Sentence-final particle indicating a reciprocal question; used to apply the previously asked question to a new subject. What about ...?; And ...?
   • 你呢？  ―  Nǐ ne?  ―  How about you?
   • 你覺得呢？ / 你觉得呢？  ―  Nǐ juéde ne?  ―  What do you think?

   • 你爸爸好嗎？你媽媽呢？ [MSC, trad.]
     你爸爸好吗？你妈妈呢？ [MSC, simp.]

     Nǐ bàba hǎo ma? Nǐ māma ne? [Pinyin]

     How is your father? And your mom?

2. Sentence-final particle signalling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words.
3. Sentence-final particle indicating action in progress, English present continuous. to be ...-ing
   • 我們上漢語課呢。 / 我们上汉语课呢。  ―  Wǒmen shàng hànyǔ kè ne.  ―  We are attending a Chinese lesson.
4. Sentence-final particle used to make questions more indirect, to give the impression that the speaker is speaking to themselves.
   • 他去哪兒了呢？ / 他去哪儿了呢？  ―  Tā qù nǎr le ne?  ―  I wonder where he's going?

“cloth”

From French laine. In 《明史》, this word is also written as 嗹／𪡏. Cognate with Cantonese 冷 (laang5-1).

呢

1. Used in 呢喃 (nínán).
2. woollen cloth (for heavy clothing)

   呢絨／呢绒 (níróng)

Substrate word. Compare:

• Proto-Tai *najᶜ (“this”): Zhuang neix (“this”), Thai นี้ (níi, “this”), Lao ນີ້ (nī, “this”)
• Proto-Mon-Khmer *niʔ ~ nih (“this”): Khmer នេះ (nih, “this”)
• Proto-Mon-Khmer *naaj (“deictic particle”): Khmer នាយ (niəy, “over there”), Vietnamese này, nầy (“this”), Vietnamese nay (“now”), Vietnamese nấy (“that”)
• Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔneinˣ (“this”): White Hmong no (“here, this”)
• Proto-Austronesian *nay (“deictic particle: this”), *qani (“proximal deictic: this”), *-ni (“proximal spatio-temporal deixis: this, here; now”): Malay ini (“this”).

呢

1. (Cantonese) this

• See 呢個#Usage notes.

呢

1. sound
2. Alternative form of 䛏 (ní).

呢

1. Only used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 (ǎn mānī bēimēi hōng).

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: に (ni); ねい (nei)
• Kan-on: じ (ji)^{←ぢ (di, historical)}; でい (dei)

呢 • (ni) (hangeul 니, McCune–Reischauer ni)

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呢 (ni, nài, nấy, nê, nỉ, nì, này)

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