泥 ní
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 尼 Buddhist nun
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
泥
ní
mud
Character
Example phrases
- 雨后的小路全是泥，孩子们的鞋很快就脏了。 Yǔ hòu de xiǎolù quán shì ní, háizimen de xié hěn kuài jiù zāng le. After the rain, the path was full of mud, and the children's shoes quickly got dirty.
- 孩子们在院子里用湿泥捏小动物，捏得很像。 Háizimen zài yuànzi lǐ yòng shī ní niē xiǎo dòngwù, niē de hěn xiàng. The children made little animals from wet clay in the yard, and they look very lifelike.
- 他的裤腿上沾满了泥，一看就是刚从田里回来。 Tā de kùtuǐ shang zhān mǎn le ní, yí kàn jiù shì gāng cóng tián lǐ huílai. His trouser legs were covered in mud; he had clearly just come back from the field.