聶

See also: 聂

聶	U+8076, 聶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8076

← 聵
[U+8075]

CJK Unified Ideographs

職 →
[U+8077]

Translingual

Han character

聶 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十尸十十 (SJSJJ), four-corner 1044₁, composition ⿱耳聑)

Derived characters

㒤, 囁(嗫), 𡓳, 𡤙, 𭗵, 懾(慑), 攝(摄), 灄(滠), 𤣒, 𨽦, 𣌍, 欇(𪳍), 㸎, 𰢚, 𦣀, 𥍉, 𮁖, 𮂨, 襵(𫌇), 𬗂, 䌰(𦈙), 𮌀, 𧕩, 讘, 䝕(𬥄), 躡(蹑), 𨊞, 𨏴, 鑷(镊), 䯀(䯅), 𩽪, 𨙓, 𣰼, 𱃒
𠠨, 𣀳, 㱌, 𰚶, 𤮱, 𭽺, 顳(颞), 𩙝, 𥷨, 𣠞, 𥤋

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 969, character 28
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29179
Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2796, character 6
Unihan data for U+8076

Chinese

trad.		聶
simp.		聂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 聶
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (聶) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
攝	neːb, ʔnjeb
聶	*neb
鑷	*neb
躡	*neb
襵	nteb, ʔnjeb
懾	*ʔnjeb
囁	ʔnjeb, njeb
欇	ʔnjeb, n̥ʰjeb, ɦnjeb, hnjeb
灄	*hnjeb
顳	*njeb
讘	*njeb

Triplication of 耳 (“ear”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): niè (nie⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): nip⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liap

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: niè
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: niè
  - Wade–Giles: nieh⁴
  - Yale: nyè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
  - Palladius: не (ne)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: nip⁶
  - Yale: nihp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: nip⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: nib⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /niːp̚²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liap
  - Tâi-lô: liap
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liab
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liap̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /liap̚³²/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 聶
Mandarin	Beijing	/niɛ⁵¹/
	Harbin	/niɛ⁵³/
	Tianjin	/nie⁵³/
	Jinan	/ȵiə²¹/
	Qingdao	/niə⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/niɛ²⁴/
	Xi'an	/niɛ²¹/
	Xining	/ȵi⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/nie¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ȵiə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ȵiɤ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/nie²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ȵie³¹/
	Guiyang	/nie²¹/
	Kunming	/niɛ³¹/
	Nanjing	/lieʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/liɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/niəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/ȵiʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/niaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵiaʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ȵiəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/ȵiəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/ȵi²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/neʔ²¹/
Hui	Tunxi	/ȵia⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/ȵie²⁴/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/ȵie²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/ȵiɛʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋiap̚¹/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/ŋiɑp̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/nip̚²/
	Nanning	/nip̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/nip̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/liap̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/niɛʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/niɛ²⁴/ /ŋiɛ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/niap̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/nit̚⁵/

Middle Chinese: nrjep

Rime
Character	聶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	葉 (156)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尼輒切
Baxter	nrjep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠiᴇp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚiɛp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/niæp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳjiap̚/
Li Rong	/njɛp̚/
Wang Li	/nĭɛp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ni̯ɛp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	niè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nip⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*nrep/

(Zhengzhang): /*neb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	聶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	niè
Middle Chinese	‹ nrjep ›
Old Chinese	/*nrep/
English	promise; whisper in one"s ear
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	聶
Reading #	1/1
No.	9529
Phonetic component	聶
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	聶
Old Chinese	/*neb/

Definitions

聶

to whisper (into one's ear)
a surname
聶耳／聂耳 ― Niè Ěr ― Nie Er (Chinese composer)

Compounds

聶坡／聂坡 (Nièpō)
聶墳／聂坟 (Nièfén)
聶家河／聂家河 (Nièjiāhé)
聶畈／聂畈 (Nièfàn)
聶聶／聂聂

Japanese

Kanji

聶

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: にょう (nyō)^{←ねふ (nefu, historical)}
Kan-on: じょう (jō)^{←でふ (defu, historical)}
Kan’yō-on: しょう (shō)^{←せふ (sefu, historical)}
Kun: ささやく (sasayaku, 聶く)

Korean

Hanja

聶 • (seop) (hangeul 섭, revised seop, McCune–Reischauer sŏp, Yale sep)

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Vietnamese

Han character

聶: Hán Nôm readings: nhiếp, niếp

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