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Kanji Detail for 泥 - "mud, dirt, sludge"

泥

  • Meaning

    泥 means "mud, dirt, sludge."

    1. Mud - Wet earth; mire.

    2. Dirt - Soil mixed with water.

    3. Mire - Thick, soft mud.

    4. Thief - A person who steals (slang).

  • Words using 泥

    • 泥沼 どろぬま Listen bog; marsh; swamp

  • Four-character idioms with 泥

    • 雪泥鴻爪 せつでいのこうそう Listen ephemeral nature of human deeds and events; evanescence of human affairs; leaving no trace
    • 雲泥万里 うんでいばんり Listen being poles apart; (there being) all the difference in the world

  • Tattoo check: 泥

    • Verified meaning: mud, dirt, sludge
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read どろ, なずみ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 泥

    Surnames 泥(どろ)Listen 泥(なずみ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    mud; mire; adhere to; be attached to

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    mud, mire; earth, clay; plaster

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    mud; clay; paste; pulp

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    mud, earth, clay; plaster, paste

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Water mixed with earth. Anything mashed to a pulp is also called 泥. As in date paste (棗泥). | Stuck. As in 拘泥 (to be rigid about).

  • Onyomi

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    de(デ) デ

    dei(デイ) デイ

    nai(ナイ) ナイ

    ni(ニ) ニ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    do.ro(どろ) どろ

    nazu.mu(なず-む) なず-む

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

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    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    mud dirt sludge black mire stagnant thief clay earth filth grime ground loam muck ooze sediment silt soil dust

Sentences including 泥

  • The thief ran away and the policeman ran after him.

  • The policeman didn't believe the thief.

  • The thief got away with the money.

  • The policeman caught the thief.

  • We caught the thief.

  • The police found out the thief.

  • The thieves ran away after it got dark.

  • My house was robbed while i was away.

  • My house was broken into last night.

  • The thief ran away when she saw the policeman.

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