泥 hanja, meaning mud, read 니 (ni)
Reading
이 (i) when it starts a word (see below).
Also read 이 (i)
mud, mire; earth, clay; plaster
진흙 니jinheuk ni
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 진흙 (jinheuk) is the Korean for mud, and 니 (ni) is the reading. Say 진흙 니 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- ⽔ 85
- Beyond radical
- 5
- Mandarin
- ní
- Japanese on
- dei
- Japanese kun
- doro
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 니, but South Korean spelling writes 이 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
이
泥水 이수 isu泥土 이토 ito泥金 이금 igeum
Elsewhere in the word
니
老泥 노니 noni春泥 춘니 chunni土泥 토니 toni
Vocabulary
Words that use 泥
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
None of the words 泥 forms are in the English dictionary this section uses, so each one shows its literal composition instead. That usually means the character survives mainly in names, dates and classical text rather than in everyday Korean.
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.