# 聶

| 聶 | U+8076, &#32886; 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 1044$_1$, 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
### Glyph origin

| | 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 (nie$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): nip$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): liap
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: niè
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: niè
*** Wade–Giles: nieh$^4$
*** Yale: nyè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
*** Palladius: не (ne)
*** Sinological IPA : /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: nip$^6$
*** Yale: nihp
*** Cantonese Pinyin: nip$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: nib$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /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/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /niɛ⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /nie⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /ȵiə²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /niə⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /niɛ²⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /niɛ²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /ȵi⁴⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /nie¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /ȵiə¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /ȵiɤ²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /nie²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /ȵie³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /nie²¹/ |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /niɛ³¹/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /lieʔ⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /liɐʔ⁵/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /niəʔ²/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | /ȵiʌʔ⁵³/ |
| Jin | Hohhot | /niaʔ⁴³/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ȵiaʔ¹/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /ȵiəʔ³/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /ȵiəʔ²/ |
| Wu | 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/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /nip̚²²/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /nip̚²/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /liap̚⁵/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /niɛʔ²³/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /niɛ²⁴/ /ŋiɛ²⁴/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /niap̚²/ |
| Min | 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 | nip$^6$ |
* 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

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: にょう (nyō)
* Kan-on: じょう (jō)
* Kan’yō-on: しょう (shō)
* 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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