Character Details
| what about...? | Ascii: 38388 | w182 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 呢 | ne | nuh | 5 | 口 (mouth) + 尼 (nun) → ne‑particle | 呢 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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A nun wipes the mouth of an orphan with a woolen cloth. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word "What about ...?" | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Hello, what are you doing? | - How can I help you? | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 30 - 口 | kǒu | mouth | mouth | square mouth | 口 吃 和 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 口 (mouth) + 尼 (nun) → ne‑particle | 口 (semantic) | 尼 (phonetic) | phonetic from 尼 | ||||||||