Memory phrase for the character: 泥

泥

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ní, nì

Left: water 氵, right: nun 尼 (buttock from the side 尸, sitting person 匕)

The water, in which the nun is sitting, is muddy.

氵	Water
尼	Buddhist nun	(often used in phonetic spellings)
尸	buttocks in side view	This radical has the meaning: corpse 尸. But because of its use in tail 尾 or urine 尿 or flatulence 屁, it is generally considered to mean 'buttocks'.
匕	spoon, ladle	In the explanations this radical is also used as a sitting person. (Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)

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水泥	shuǐ ní	cement
泥土	ní tǔ	earth; soil; mud; clay
泥坑	ní kēng	mud pit; mire; morass
泥浆	ní jiāng	slurry; mud
泥潭	ní tán	quagmire
泥泞	ní nìng	muddy; mud
泥淖	ní nào	mud; muddy swamp; sump; fig. a sticky predicament
泥淖	ní nào

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