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尼
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Definitions
- 1. Buddhist nun
Example Sentences
1 shown羅馬 尼 亞語屬於羅曼語族。
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Words Containing 尼
facekini
Leibnitz (name)
(Buddhist) monks and nuns
Kennedy (name)
Nelson or Nillson (name)
Nisu (language)
Heineken (Dutch brewing company)
Dominica
Niya River in south Xinjiang
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago
Perpignan (city in France)
PRC equivalent: 泰坦尼克號|泰坦尼克号[tài tǎn ní kè hào]
Slovenian (language)
Catalonia
Bern, capital of Switzerland
Brittany or Bretagne, area of western France
Mitt Romney (1947-), US Republican contender 2012
Rania (name)
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
UCLA
Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Garden of Gethsemane (in the Christian passion story)
Bryne (City in Rogaland, Norway)
the Commonwealth of Dominica
California
Koenigsegg (car manufacturer)
pfennig (monetary unit) (loanword)
West Virginia, US state
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Leibniz (name)
Danny (name)
see 基尼係數|基尼系数[jī ní xì shù]
Book of Nehemiah
Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County in Yunnan, capital Pu'er city 普洱市[pǔ ěr shì]
Hani ethnic group
(bird species of China) Nepal wren-babbler (Pnoepyga immaculata)
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Unocal (US oil company)
Gini coefficient (a measure of statistical dispersion)
Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the historical Buddha and founder of Buddhism
Tunis, capital of Tunisia
Niger (African state)
Tanganyika on continent of West Africa, one component of Tanzania
Pennsylvania
Meniere's disease (loss of balance after stroke)
Sunni (subdivision of Islam)
Anna Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy 列夫·托爾斯泰|列夫·托尔斯泰[liè fū · tuō ěr sī tài]
Cheney (name)
St Anthony Parish (Macau)
Nyima county, Tibetan: Nyi ma rdzong in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[nà qǔ dì qū], central Tibet
Jechoniah or Jeconiah (son of Josiah)
Daniel (name)
mankini (loanword)
Indonesia
Buddhist nun (loanword from Sanskrit \bhiksuni\)
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician, first prime minister 1947-1964
Nimitz class, US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, 8 in commission since 1975
see 基尼係數|基尼系数[jī ní xì shù]
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, \Il Duce\, president 1922-1943
Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite
bikini (loanword)
Lamborghini (Italian car manufacturer)
Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, mathematician and polymath
RMS Titanic, British passenger liner that sank in 1912
Marconi, UK electronics company
Agnus Dei (section of Catholic mass)
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793
nit (symbol: nt), unit of luminance (loanword)
negro (loanword)
Albania
Abyssinia, historical name of Ethiopia
Sidney or Sydney (name)
Phoenicia, ancient civilization along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
Amharic (language)
Cape Kennedy, name 1963-1973 of Cape Canaveral 卡納維拉爾角|卡纳维拉尔角[kǎ nà wéi lā ěr jiǎo], Florida
Manila, capital of Philippines
Niamey, capital of Niger
courtesy name for Confucius 孔夫子[kǒng fū zǐ]
University of Pennsylvania
Dominican Republic
Estonia
Jonê or Zhuoni County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[gān nán zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Gansu
San Antonio, Texas
Hennessy (cognac)
Tunisia
the Netherlands
Tennyson (name)
Mani (3rd century AD), Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism
damping
Niya, ancient kingdom near Khotan in Xinjiang, 1st century BC-4th century AD
The Chronicles of Narnia, children's stories by C.S. Lewis
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
Niger River of West Africa
modafinil (loanword)
Denisovan, an extinct species of human
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tasmania
fentanyl (loanword)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Bunyavirus
Jonê or Zhuoni County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘南藏族自治州[gān nán zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Gansu
Benioff zone (geology)
Lake Tanganyika in East Africa
Cassini space probe
Trinidad and Tobago
Romania
Nixon (name)
Dardanelles Strait
Cassini (proper name)
ammonia solution
Indonesian rupiah
(Internet slang) what? (loanword from Japanese 何 なに nani)
Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece
Nyima county, Tibetan: Nyi ma rdzong in Nagchu prefecture 那曲地區|那曲地区[nà qǔ dì qū], central Tibet
Nile (river)
Virginia, US state
Trinidad
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
the Nile
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name)
Nissan, Japanese car make
Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, Canada
Banja Luka (city in Bosnia)
Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy (1929-1994)
Abilene
Caledonia
Disneyland
Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland
Melanesia
Tasmania
Giuliani (name)
Neanderthal man
the Greenwich meridian
carnitine (loanword) (biochemistry)
Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis
Micronesia
Catania, Sicily
Dominica
Moroni, capital of Comoros
Tanzania
Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱[pǔ ěr], Yunnan
Manichaeism
nylon (loanword)
penicillin (loanword)
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
Sardinia
Armani (fashion designer)
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
brownie (pastry) (loanword)
Tiffany & Co. (US luxury jewelry retailer)
Nebuchadnezzar
nicotine (loanword)
München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
Second Epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians
Nielsen or Nelson (name)
Manitoba province, Canada
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
the Macartney mission to Qing China in 1793
Ghazni (Afghan province)
Nicodemus, prominent Jew of the time of Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of John
Nicaragua
Bosnia
Slovenia
Achaemenid Empire of Persian (559-330 BC)
Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan 雲南|云南[yún nán]
Winnie-the-Pooh (bear character in children's stories by A. A. Milne adapted by Disney)
El Niño, equatorial climate variation in the Pacific
Dennis (name)
Monica Lewinsky (1973-), former White House intern
Pomerania, a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea
Nereids (Greek sea nymphs, fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris)
Sonid Left banner in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
Albany, New York
incantation (Sanskrit: dharani)
Sistani (name of a prominent Iraqi Ayatollah)
Thessalonica
Mani (god)
First epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians
Nîmes (city in France)
Martinique (French Caribbean island)
Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
see 比基尼[bǐ jī ní]
ammonia (loanword)
Sonid Right banner in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
Alderney (Channel Islands)
Nikon corporation
Silvaner (grape type)
La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺
Polynesia
Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966), US admiral
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia
Jiangcheng Hani and Yi autonomous county in Pu'er 普洱[pǔ ěr], Yunnan
Buddhist nun
Hugo Benioff (1899-1968), Caltech seismologist
University of Manila
Minnesota, USA
Virginia, US state
St Denis or St Dennis
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Italian violinist and composer
Ghazni or Ghaznah province of Afghanistan
China-Nepal
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Armenia, capital Yerevan 埃里溫|埃里温[āi lǐ wēn]
Winnie the Pooh
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
wind damper (engineering)
Abyssinian (person)
Dania, Tania etc
Nyêmo county, Tibetan: Snye mo rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[lā sà], Tibet
New Caledonia
Kennedy space center, Cape Canaveral 卡納維拉爾角|卡纳维拉尔角[kǎ nà wéi lā ěr jiǎo], Florida
West Virginia, US state
Republic of Slovenia
Sidney or Sydney (name)
Nepal
Loch Ness Monster
Friedrich Nietzsche (1846-1900), German philosopher
Garden of Gethsemane
Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands
Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite
Nyêmo county, Tibetan: Snye mo rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[lā sà], Tibet
California
Albanian (person)
Kenya
Minneapolis, a nameplace in the USA, notably in Minnesota
Manitoba, province of Canada
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
Mauritania
Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
Venice
Kingdom of Nepal
Titus Andronicus, 1593 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
see 維綸|维纶[wéi lún]
Anna Sergeevna Kournikova (1981-), Russian tennis star and glamor model
(loanword) panini
nylon buckle
Mojiang Hani Autonomous County in Pu'er 普洱[pǔ ěr], Yunnan
Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969), Belgian-French explorer and writer who traveled in Tibet in the 1920s
Guinness (name)
Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia
Hannibal (name)
Dubrovnik (city in Croatia)
Benedictus
Panipat, ancient city in India
Sony
Polynesia
Sunni sect (of Islam)
Meniere's disease (loss of balance after stroke)
Brittany (France)
Sidney or Sydney (name)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
Minnesota
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195 BC), ancient Greek mathematician and inventor
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]
Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani (1952-), Pakistan People's Party politician, prime minister 2008-2012
Shaquille O'Neal (1972-), former NBA star
French Polynesia
Nice (city in France)
martini (loanword)
Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist who reported on China, esp. the communist side
Kefalonia, Greek Island in the Ionian sea
Pennsylvania
Dominica
Virginia (US state) (Hong Kong, Macau)
Puccini
Bosnian (language)
Bologna
Indonesian language
Earl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793
Kisangani (city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Netanyahu (name)
Aeneid
Neanderthal man
Aeneas
Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya)
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
Adonis, figure in Greek mythology
Lumbini, Nepal, birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[shì jiā móu ní] founder of Buddhism (also written 嵐毘尼|岚毗尼[lán pí ní], 臘伐尼|腊伐尼[là fá ní], 林微尼[lín wēi ní])
honey (term of endearment) (loanword)
University of California
Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
Niagara Falls
Martini
Disneyland
Nigeria
(until WWII) Königsberg, capital of East Prussia on the Baltic
Phoenix, capital of Arizona
Nicosia, capital of Cyprus
(name) Kenyon; Canyon
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Panchen Erdeni or Panchen Lama
Brønnøysund (city in Nordland, Norway)
Nick (name)
the Macartney mission to Qing China in 1793
Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude)
Anthony and Cleopatra, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Silvio Berlusconi (1936-), Italian media magnate and right-wing politician, prime minister of Italy 1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011
Anthony (name)
Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai autonomous county in Yuxi 玉溪[yù xī], Yunnan
Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia
Nisan, the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar
Jeff Kinney
(chemistry) aniline (loanword)
Pennsylvania