# 暱

| 暱 | U+66B1, &#26289; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66B1 |
| ← 暰 [U+66B0] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 暲 → [U+66B2] |

## Translingual
### Han character

暱 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日尸廿口 (ASTR), four-corner 6101$_6$, composition ⿰日匿)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 499, character 25
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14132
* Dae Jaweon: page 868, character 31
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1528, character 4
* Unihan data for U+66B1

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 暱
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 暱 | *niɡ |
| 慝 | *n̥ʰɯːɡ |
| 匿 | *nɯɡ |

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“to be near, close”). Cognate with 邇 (OC *njelʔ, “near”), Burmese နီး (ni:, “near”), and Tibetan ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near”) (STEDT).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): nì (ni$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): nik$^1$ / nik$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): li̍t
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: nì
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: nì
*** Wade–Giles: ni$^4$
*** Yale: nì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nih
*** Palladius: ни (ni)
*** Sinological IPA : /ni⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: nik$^1$ / nik$^6$
*** Yale: nīk / nihk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: nik$^7$ / nik$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: nig$^1$ / nig$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /nɪk̚⁵/, /nɪk̚²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: li̍t
*** Tâi-lô: li̍t
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lit
*** IPA (Xiamen): /lit̚⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lit̚²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /lit̚¹²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /lit̚⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /lit̚⁴/
* Middle Chinese: nrit
Rime :
| Character | 暱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 娘 (12) |
| Final (韻) | 質 (49) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 尼質切 |
| Baxter | nrit |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɳˠiɪt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɳᵚit̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /niet̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɳjit̚/ |
| Li Rong | /njĕt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /nĭĕt̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ni̯ĕt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | nì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | nat$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*n<r>ik/
    (Zhengzhang): /*niɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 暱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | nì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ nrit › |
| Old Chinese | /*n<r>ik/ |
| English | close, intimate |
| 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 | 暱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9479 |
| Phonetic component | 匿 |
| Rime group | 質 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 暱 |
| Old Chinese | /*niɡ/ |

### Definitions

暱
* intimate, close, familiar
    From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4th century BCE
    Gōng yuē: “Bù yì bù nì, hòu jiāng bēng.” [Pinyin]
    The lord said: "Not righteous (towards his lord) and not close (to his elder brother), when he expands his territory, he will fall."
* to approach

#### Compounds

* 暱愛 / 昵爱
* 暱稱 / 昵称 (nìchēng)
* 狎暱 / 狎昵
* 私暱 / 私昵
* 親暱 / 亲昵 (qīnnì)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: にち (nichi)、ね (ne)、ねい (nei)
* Kan-on: じつ (jitsu)、でい (dei)
* Kun: ちかづく (chikazuku, 暱く)

## Korean
### Hanja

暱 • (nil>il) (hangeul 닐>일, revised nil>il, McCune–Reischauer nil>il, Yale nil>il)
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## Vietnamese
### Alternative forms

* 昵 (nặc)

### Han character

暱: Hán Việt readings: nặc
* chữ Hán form of nặc (“intimate; close”).

### References

* 1 2 Trần (2004).