呢

The character "呢" has 8 strokes. "呢" is one of the 3500 commonly used characters. The character "呢" has 2 pronunciations, it is a polyphonic character. The pronunciations of "呢" are "ne" "ní" . View the stroke order of "呢">>

The basic meaning of the Chinese character "呢"

n.: (heavy) woolen cloth; wool coating/suiting

Form words with "呢"

将校呢 a kind of thick woolen fabric (used to make uniforms for generals)

坚固呢 denim

海军呢 navy cloth;navy cloth

羊驼呢 alpaca

格子花呢 tartan

花格呢 woolen check

羽毛呢 feather cloth

棉毛呢 half-wool

鹿皮呢 buckskin (cloth)

煮呢机 decatizing/decating machine; decator

Example phrases using "呢"

• 你别跟我蘑菇了，我还要办事呢。

  Don’t pester me; I’ve got to attend to business.

• 其实他啥都知道，他是在犯傻呢。

  Actually, he knows everything. He is only being ignorant.

• 我们刚搬的家，还没安顿下来呢。

  We just moved house and we haven’t settled in.

• 等一会儿，我正在给孩子讲书呢。

  Just a minute, please. I’m teaching the child now.

• 事情并未就此结束，还有下文呢。

  That was not the end of the story; something more ensued.

• 你甭等他了，他指不定来不来呢。

  Don’t wait for him; maybe he isn’t coming.

• 女生都不能进屋，尚且是男生呢?

  Even girls are not allowed to enter the room, to say nothing of boys.

• 他是警察，怎么会知法犯法呢？

  Surely, as a cop, he couldn’t have broken the law deliberately.

• 想来呢，就来；不想来呢，就拉倒。

  Come if you want to, forget it if you don’t want to.

• 别这么正儿八经的，他是开玩笑呢。

  He was just kidding. Don’t take it seriously.