乜
miēNiè

to squint

乜 miē frequency
squint verb
to squint or look askance, primarily used in the compound 乜斜 miē​xie

他乜着眼瞟了我一下，装作没听见我说的话。

tā miē zhe yǎn piǎo le wǒ yī​xià, zhuāng​zuò méi tīng​jiàn wǒ shuō de huà.

He squinted his eyes and glanced at me, pretending not to hear what I said.

what punctuation
a Cantonese interrogative pronoun equivalent to 'what'

你喺度做乜？

nǐ hái​dou zuò​me?

What are you doing here?

乜 Niè
Nie modal particle
surname Nie

他姓乜，是一个比较少见的姓氏。

tā xìng Niè, shì yī gè bǐ​jiào shǎo​jiàn de xìng​shì.

His surname is Nie, which is a relatively rare surname.

Frequency
Character
Written text
5,265th most common 0.734 per million
Movie subtitles
5,234th most common 0.040 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
12.3 per million

Details
Strokes
2
Unicode
U+4E5C

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)