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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

see styles
niè
    nie4
nieh
 getsu
son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
Retribution; an illicit son; son of a concubine.


see styles
niè
    nie4
nieh
variant of [nie4]
See:

孽報


孽报

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niè bào
    nie4 bao4
nieh pao
bad karma

孽子

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niè zǐ
    nie4 zi3
nieh tzu
unfilial son; unworthy son; illegitimate son; concubine's son

孽畜

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niè chù
    nie4 chu4
nieh ch`u
    nieh chu
evil creature (multipurpose curse); evil domestic animal

孽種


孽种

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niè zhǒng
    nie4 zhong3
nieh chung
bane of one's existence; vile spawn

孽緣


孽缘

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niè yuán
    nie4 yuan2
nieh yüan
ill-fated relationship

孽障

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niè zhàng
    nie4 zhang4
nieh chang
evil creature

作孽

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zuò niè
    zuo4 nie4
tso nieh
to sin

冤孽

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yuān niè
    yuan1 nie4
yüan nieh
sin (in Buddhism); enmity leading to sin

妖孽

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yāo niè
    yao1 nie4
yao nieh
evildoer

罪孽

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zuì niè
    zui4 nie4
tsui nieh
 zaigetsu
sin; crime; wrongdoing
Sins, crimes.

造孽

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zào niè
    zao4 nie4
tsao nieh
to do evil; to commit sins

餘孽


余孽

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yú niè
    yu2 nie4
yü nieh
remaining evil element; surviving members (of evil former regime); dregs (of a colonial administration)

孽海花

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niè hǎi huā
    nie4 hai3 hua1
nieh hai hua
A Flower in a Sinful Sea, late-Qing novel by Jin Tianhe 金天翮[Jin1 Tian1he2] and Zeng Pu 曾樸|曾朴[Zeng1 Pu3]

自作孽

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zì zuò niè
    zi4 zuo4 nie4
tzu tso nieh
to bring disaster on oneself

前生冤孽

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qián shēng yuān niè
    qian2 sheng1 yuan1 nie4
ch`ien sheng yüan nieh
    chien sheng yüan nieh
predestined relationship

天災地孽


天灾地孽

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tiān zāi dì niè
    tian1 zai1 di4 nie4
t`ien tsai ti nieh
    tien tsai ti nieh
catastrophes and unnatural phenomena; Heaven-sent warnings

殘渣餘孽


残渣余孽

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cán zhā yú niè
    can2 zha1 yu2 nie4
ts`an cha yü nieh
    tsan cha yü nieh
evil elements who have escaped eradication

Variations:
余蘖
余孽

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 yogetsu
    よげつ
(1) (esp. 余蘖) (See 蘖え) sprouts from a stump; (2) (esp. 余孽) ruined family surviving through a descendant

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 20 results for "孽" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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