尼
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- 1. Buddhist nun
Words Containing 尼
nylon (loanword)
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia
China-Nepal
Danny (name)
Dennis (name)
Daniel (name)
Denisovan, an extinct species of human
Abilene
Armenia, capital Yerevan 埃里溫|埃里温[āi lǐ wēn]
courtesy name for Confucius 孔夫子[kǒng fū zǐ]
Aeneas
Aeneid
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
Bern, capital of Switzerland
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
Tennyson (name)
Brittany or Bretagne, area of western France
Virginia, US state
Perpignan (city in France)
Jeff Kinney
Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy (1929-1994)
(Buddhist) monks and nuns
Unocal (US oil company)
Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai autonomous county in Yuxi 玉溪[yù xī], Yunnan
Netanyahu (name)
(name) Kenyon; Canyon
Kefalonia, Greek Island in the Ionian sea
Cheney (name)
California
University of California
UCLA
California
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Catalonia
Ghazni (Afghan province)
Ghazni or Ghaznah province of Afghanistan
Jonê or Zhuoni County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[gān nán zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Gansu
Jonê or Zhuoni County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[gān nán zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Gansu
Bologna
Cassini space probe
Caledonia
Catania, Sicily
carnitine (loanword) (biochemistry)
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
Cassini (proper name)
Indonesian rupiah
Indonesia
Indonesian language
El Niño, equatorial climate variation in the Pacific
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite
see 基尼係數|基尼系数[jī ní xì shù]
Guinness (name)
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012
honey (term of endearment) (loanword)
Hani ethnic group
(until WWII) Königsberg, capital of East Prussia on the Baltic
Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
Tanganyika on continent of West Africa, one component of Tanzania
Lake Tanganyika in East Africa
Tanzania
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195 BC), ancient Greek mathematician and inventor
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
Kisangani (city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
see 基尼係數|基尼系数[jī ní xì shù]
Tasmania
Tasmania
Mojiang Hani Autonomous County in Pu'er 普洱[pǔ ěr], Yunnan
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, \Il Duce\, president 1922-1943
Dominica
Dominica
Dominica
Dominican Republic
the Commonwealth of Dominica
Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969), Belgian-French explorer and writer who traveled in Tibet in the 1920s
Albany, New York
Alderney (Channel Islands)
Venice
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Anna Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy 列夫·托爾斯泰|列夫·托尔斯泰[liè fū · tuō ěr sī tài]
Anthony (name)
Anthony and Cleopatra, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Garden of Gethsemane
Garden of Gethsemane (in the Christian passion story)
Micronesia
Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County in Yunnan, capital Pu'er city 普洱市[pǔ ěr shì]
Winnie-the-Pooh (bear character in children's stories by A. A. Milne adapted by Disney)
Niagara Falls
Niamey, capital of Niger
Nick (name)
Nixon (name)
Nicaragua
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
Nereids (Greek sea nymphs, fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris)
nicotine (loanword)
Nicodemus, prominent Jew of the time of Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of John
Nîmes (city in France)
Buddhist nun
Neanderthal man
Neanderthal man
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
Nebuchadnezzar
Book of Nehemiah
Nikon corporation
the Netherlands
Friedrich Nietzsche (1846-1900), German philosopher
Nisan, the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar
Nice (city in France)
Loch Ness Monster
Nigeria
Niger (African state)
Niger River of West Africa
Nyêmo county, Tibetan: Snye mo rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[lā sà], Tibet
Nyêmo county, Tibetan: Snye mo rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[lā sà], Tibet
negro (loanword)
Nissan, Japanese car make
Nepal
Kingdom of Nepal
(bird species of China) Nepal wren-babbler (Pnoepyga immaculata)
Nielsen or Nelson (name)
Nelson or Nillson (name)
nit (symbol: nt), unit of luminance (loanword)
Nyima county, Tibetan: Nyi ma rdzong in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[nà qǔ dì qū], central Tibet
Nyima county, Tibetan: Nyi ma rdzong in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[nà qǔ dì qū], central Tibet
Nicosia, capital of Cyprus
Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966), US admiral
Nimitz class, US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, 8 in commission since 1975
the Nile
Nile (river)
Nisu (language)
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
Niya, ancient kingdom near Khotan in Xinjiang, 1st century BC-4th century AD
Niya River in south Xinjiang
nylon buckle
Banja Luka (city in Bosnia)
Brønnøysund (city in Nordland, Norway)
Bunyavirus
brownie (pastry) (loanword)
Bryne (City in Rogaland, Norway)
Brittany (France)
(loanword) panini
Panipat, ancient city in India
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Italian violinist and composer
Thessalonica
First epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians
Second Epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians
Sidney or Sydney (name)
Anna Sergeevna Kournikova (1981-), Russian tennis star and glamor model
Virginia, US state
Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia
Sidney or Sydney (name)
Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece
Estonia
München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺
Rania (name)
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name)
Mani (3rd century AD), Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism
Manichaeism
Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite
Slovenia
Republic of Slovenia
Slovenian (language)
Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina
New Caledonia
Minnesota, USA
Minnesota
Minneapolis, a nameplace in the USA, notably in Minnesota
Puccini
former Pu'er Hani and Yi autonomous county in Yunnan, renamed in 2007 Ning'er Hani and Yi autonomous county 寧洱哈尼族彞族自治縣|宁洱哈尼族彝族自治县, capital Pu'er city 普洱市
Manitoba, province of Canada
Benedictus
Giuliani (name)
Dubrovnik (city in Croatia)
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude)
the Greenwich meridian
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia
Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit \bhiksuni\)
bikini (loanword)
Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
see 比基尼[bǐ jī ní]
Mauritania
Jiangcheng Hani and Yi autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱[pǔ ěr], Yunnan
Shaquille O'Neal (1972-), former NBA star
French Polynesia
Polynesia
Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那|波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那[bō sī ní yà hé hēi sài gē wéi nà]
Bosnian (language)
Pomerania, a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea
RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912
Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Heineken (Dutch brewing company)