U+6CE5 "泥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
泥
U+6CE5 "泥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "mud," "sludge," or "clay," and it is composed of the radical for water (氵) on the left side, indicating its association with wetness or liquid, paired with the phonetic component 尼 on the right. This character is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, appearing in words like "泥土" (nítǔ) meaning soil or mud, and "泥泞" (nínìng) meaning muddy or slushy. It can also carry figurative meanings, such as in "泥沼" (nízhǎo) to describe a quagmire or a difficult situation, or in "泥醉" (deisui in Japanese) meaning dead drunk, illustrating its versatility across cultural contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6CE5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 泥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 泥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xB3 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6CE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006CE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6ce5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AA64 |
| kCCCII | 214726 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4E47 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4E47 |
| kCangjie | ESP |
| kCantonese | nai4 |
| kCihaiT | 783.302 |
| kCowles | 2844 2876 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1012.080 |
| kDefinition | mud, mire; earth, clay; plaster |
| kEACC | 214726 |
| kFanqie | 奴低 奴計 |
| kFenn | 725A |
| kFennIndex | 359.11 360.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3711.1 |
| kGB0 | 3664 |
| kGB1 | 3664 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0563d |
| kHangul | 니:0E 이:0 |
| kHanYu | 31595.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | ní(308) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 31595.080:ní,nì,nǐ,niè,nìng |
| kHKGlyph | 2144 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1012.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31595.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0617.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4460 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AA64 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4525 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D5A1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-527A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4E47 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5C2D |
| kJapanese | デイ ナイ ニョウ デツ ネチ どろ ひじ なずむ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1258 |
| kJapaneseKun | DORO NAZUMU |
| kJapaneseOn | DEI |
| kJis0 | 3705 |
| kKangXi | 0617.110 |
| kKorean | NI |
| kLau | 2262 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3136 |
| kMandarin | ní |
| kMatthews | 4660 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1954 1981 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015231 |
| kMorohashi | 17311 |
| kNelson | 2533 |
| kPhonetic | 946 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3103+85.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.5 |
| kSBGY | 091.30 374.58 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+576D<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 361.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ní粵nai4 nì粵nei6 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+576D<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 3136 |
| kTang | *nei nèi |
| kTGHZ2013 | 264.130:ní 265.120:nì |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | lầy ne nè né nê nề nể nễ nệ nơi |
| kXerox | 246:155 |
| kXHC1983 | 0826.150:ní 0829.080:nì |