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
泥潭
nítán
quagmire; mire
Characters in this word
潭 tán
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 覃 to reach, to spread to
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 企业若长期依赖补贴，最终可能陷入效率低下的泥潭。 Qǐyè ruò chángqī yīlài bǔtiē, zuìzhōng kěnéng xiànrù xiàolǜ dīxià de nítán. If an enterprise relies on subsidies for a long time, it may eventually fall into a quagmire of low efficiency.
- 一辆卡车陷进了路边的泥潭，怎么也开不出来。 Yí liàng kǎchē xiàn jìn le lùbiān de nítán, zěnme yě kāi bù chūlái. A truck sank into a mire at the roadside and could not be driven out no matter what.
- 他越想摆脱债务，就越陷入泥潭。 Tā yuè xiǎng bǎituō zhàiwù, jiù yuè xiànrù nítán. The harder he tried to escape his debts, the deeper he sank into the quagmire.
Related words
- 泥 ní mud
- 水泥 shuǐní cement
- 泥泞 nínìng muddy; miry
- 泥土 nítǔ soil; earth
- 淤泥 yūní silt; mud
- 涝 lào waterlogged; flooded
- 礁石 jiāoshí reef; rock in the sea
- 漫 màn to overflow; to spread; to cover
- 鸟巢 niǎocháo bird’s nest
- 茫茫 mángmáng boundless; vast and indistinct
- 鲸 jīng whale
- 澎湃 péngpài surging; stirring; powerful