泥
nínì HSK6

mud

泥 ní frequency
mud noun
wet, soft earth or clay

大雨过后，路上全是泥。

dà​yǔ guò hòu, lù​shang quán shì ní.

The road was covered in mud after the heavy rain.

paste noun
a soft, thick mass of crushed or mashed substance

他喜欢吃土豆泥。

tā xǐ​huan chī tǔ​dòu ní.

He likes eating mashed potatoes.

泥 nì
restrained verb

我们不应拘泥于这些琐碎的细节。

wǒ​men bù yīng jū nì yú zhè​xiē suǒ​suì de xì​jié.

We should not be bogged down by these trivial details.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,499th most common 71.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,707th most common 31.4 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.7 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
26.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+6CE5

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