霓

霓	U+9713, 霓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9713

← 霒
[U+9712]

CJK Unified Ideographs

霔 →
[U+9714]

Translingual

Han character

霓 (radical 173, 雨+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一月竹X山 (MBHXU), four-corner 1021₇, composition ⿱⻗兒)

References

KangXi: page 1375, character 29

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42332

Dae Jaweon: page 1884, character 29

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4067, character 16

Unihan data for U+9713

Chinese

蛪 – MC /ŋet̚/ (倪結切)
simp. and trad.		霓
variant forms		蜺蛪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兒) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
掜	rŋeː, ŋeːʔ
誽	*rŋeː
倪	*ŋeː
蜺	ŋeː, ŋeː
霓	ŋeː, ŋeːs, *ŋeː
郳	*ŋeː
齯	*ŋeː
婗	*ŋeː
輗	*ŋeː
棿	*ŋeː
猊	*ŋeː
麑	*ŋeː
貎	*ŋeː
鯢	*ŋeː
兒	ŋeː, ŋje
觬	ŋeː, ŋeːʔ
堄	ŋeːʔ, ŋeːs
晲	*ŋeːʔ
睨	*ŋeːs
唲	*ŋje
隉	*ŋeːd
鶂	*ŋeːɡ
鬩	*ɦŋeːɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ní (ni²)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁴
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): gê / nî

(Teochew, Peng'im): ngi⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: ní
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
  - Wade–Giles: nih²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
  - IPA ^(key): /ni³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ngai⁴
  - Yale: ngàih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gê
  - Tâi-lô: gê
  - Phofsit Daibuun: gee
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ge²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ge¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /ge²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nî
  - Tâi-lô: nî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: nii
  - IPA (Taipei): /nĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /nĩ²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ngi⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngî
  - IPA ^(key): /ŋi⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /ŋei/, /ŋei^H/, /ŋet̚/▼

Rime
Character	霓	霓	霓
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	齊 (39)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV	IV
Fanqie	五稽切	五計切	五結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋei/	/ŋei^H/	/ŋet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋei/	/ŋei^H/	/ŋet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɛi/	/ŋɛi^H/	/ŋɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɛj/	/ŋɛj^H/	/ŋɛt̚/
Li Rong	/ŋei/	/ŋei^H/	/ŋet̚/
Wang Li	/ŋiei/	/ŋiei^H/	/ŋiet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋiei/	/ŋiei^H/	/ŋiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí	yì	yè

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*ŋeː/, /*ŋeːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	霓	霓	霓
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	2738	2756	2759
Phonetic component	兒	兒	兒
Rime group	支	支	支
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	倪	詣	齧
Old Chinese	/*ŋeː/	/*ŋeːs/	/*ŋeː/

Definitions

霓

secondary rainbow

Compounds

大旱雲霓／大旱云霓 (dàhànyúnní)
拂霓
氣吐虹霓／气吐虹霓
虹霓 (hóngní)

金霓
雲霓／云霓
雲霓之望／云霓之望
霓旌

霓虹 (níhóng)
霓虹燈／霓虹灯 (níhóngdēng)
霓裳 (nícháng)
霓裳羽衣 (Níchángyǔyī)

Japanese

Kanji

霓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

rainbow

Readings

Go-on: げ (ge)
Kan-on: げい (gei)
Kun: にじ (niji)

Compounds

雲 (うん)霓 (げい) (ungei): clouds and rainbows
霓 (げい)裳 (しょう) (geishō)
霓 (げい)裳 (しょう)羽 (う)衣 (い) (geishōui)
虹 (こう)霓 (げい) (kōgei), 虹 (こう)蜺 (げい) (kōgei): rainbow
大旱 (たいかん)の雲 (うん)霓 (げい)を望 (のぞ)むがごとし (taikan no ungei o nozomu ga gotoshi)

Kanji in this term
霓
にじ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Noun

霓 (hiragana にじ, rōmaji niji)

Alternative spelling of 虹

Korean

Hanja

霓 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

霓 (nghê, nghi, nghé, mống)

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