佞
佞 — nyeong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 재주있을/아첨할 녕
- Romanization
- nyeong
- English
- flattery; glib
- Mandarin
- nìng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ネイ, デイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- おもね.る よこしま
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 人 (9, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+4F5E
How 佞 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 佞 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 仁, 女.
Japanese words with 佞
- 佞ねい flattery; insincerity
- 佞悪ねいあく perverseness; perverse person
- 佞者ねいしゃ smooth talker; crafty person
- 佞臣ねいしん crafty courtier; traitor
- 佞人ねいじん flatterer; smooth talker; crafty person
- 佞智ねいち craftiness
- 佞弁ねいべん flattery; cajolery; adulation
- 佞姦ねいかん treacherous; wicked; perverse
- 便佞べんねい flattery; adulation
- 佞むかだむ to deceive; to fool; to lie
- 佞武多ねぶた Nebuta; nighttime festival in Tōhoku (esp. Aomori)
- 奸佞邪知かんねいじゃち wiles and cunning; craftiness and treachery
Other hanja read “녕”
Other hanja with radical 人
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