| 泥 | [ ní ] mud, clay, paste, pulp |
| 泥 | [ nì ] restrained |
| 泥人 | [ ní rén ] clay figurine |
| 泥刀 | [ ní daō ] trowel |
| 泥古 | [ nì gǔ ] stick-in-the-mud, to stick to old ways, stubbornly conservative |
| 泥古不化 | [ nì gǔ bù huà ] conservative and unable to adapt (idiom) |
| 泥土 | [ ní tǔ ] earth, soil, mud, clay |
| 泥坑 | [ ní kēng ] mud pit, mire, morass |
| 泥垢 | [ ní goù ] dirt, grime |
| 泥塑 | [ ní sù ] clay modeling, clay figurine or statue |
| 泥塗軒冕 | [ ní tú xuān miǎn ] to despise titles and high offices |
| 泥子 | [ nì zi ] putty (used by plumbers and glaziers) |
| 泥孩 | [ ní haí ] clay doll |
| 泥守 | [ nì shoǔ ] stubborn and conservative |
| 泥封 | [ ní fēng ] to seal jars etc with mud, clay or lute, lute, luting |
| 泥岩 | [ ní yán ] mudstone, shale |
| 泥工 | [ ní gōng ] mason, masonry work |
| 泥巴 | [ ní bā ] mud |
| 泥敷劑 | [ ní fū jì ] poultice |
| 泥水 | [ ní shuǐ ] muddy water, mud, masonry (craft) |
| 泥水匠 | [ ní shuǐ jiàng ] mason |
| 泥沙 | [ ní shā ] silt |
| 泥沙俱下 | [ ní shā jù xià ] mud and sand flow together (idiom), good and bad mingle |
| 泥沼 | [ ní zhaǒ ] swamp |
| 泥淖 | [ ní naò ] mud, muddy swamp, sump, fig. a sticky predicament |
| 泥漿 | [ ní jiāng ] slurry, mud |
| 泥潭 | [ ní tán ] quagmire |
| 泥濘 | [ ní nìng ] muddy, mud |
| 泥灰 | [ ní huī ] lime plaster (construction) |
| 泥炭 | [ ní tàn ] peat |
| 泥炭蘚 | [ ní tàn xiǎn ] matted sphagnum moss (Sphagnum palustre) |
| 泥煤 | [ ní meí ] peat |
| 泥牛入海 | [ ní niú rù haǐ ] lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning |
| 泥犁 | [ ní lí ] (Buddhism) Naraka |
| 泥瓦匠 | [ ní wǎ jiàng ] bricklayer, tiler, mason |
| 泥盆紀 | [ ní pén jì ] Devonian (geological period 417-354m years ago) |
| 泥石流 | [ ní shí liú ] landslide, torrent of mud and stones, mudslide |
| 泥胎 | [ ní taī ] clay idol |
| 泥腿 | [ ní tuǐ ] peasant, yokel |
| 泥腿子 | [ ní tuǐ zi ] peasant, yokel |
| 泥菩薩 | [ ní pú sà ] clay Bodhisattva |
| 泥菩薩過江，自身難保 | [ ní pú sà guò jiāng zì shēn nán baǒ ] like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can't guarantee his own safety, unable to save oneself, let alone others |
| 泥質 | [ ní zhì ] muddy |
| 泥質岩 | [ ní zhì yán ] mudstone (geology) |
| 泥質頁岩 | [ ní zhì yè yán ] mudstone |
| 泥醉 | [ ní zuì ] blind drunk, drunk as drunk can be |
| 泥金 | [ ní jīn ] to gild, gilt |
| 泥鏟 | [ ní chǎn ] trowel |
| 泥鰍 | [ ní qiu ] loach, mud fish, CL:條|条[tiao2] |
| ⇒ 出淤泥而不染 | [ chū yū ní ér bù rǎn ] lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom), fig. to be principled and incorruptible |
| ⇒ 判若雲泥 | [ pàn ruò yún ní ] as different as heaven and earth (idiom), worlds apart |
| ⇒ 南泥灣 | [ nán ní wān ] Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi, "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces |
| ⇒ 印泥 | [ yìn ní ] red ink paste used for seal |
| ⇒ 和稀泥 | [ huò xī ní ] to try to smooth things over, to paper over the issues, to gloss things over |
| ⇒ 嘴啃泥 | [ zuǐ kěn ní ] to fall flat on one's face |
| ⇒ 土豆泥 | [ tǔ doù ní ] mashed potato |
| ⇒ 封泥 | [ fēng ní ] sealing clay, lute |
| ⇒ 山泥傾瀉 | [ shān ní qīng xiè ] a landslide |
| ⇒ 往泥裡踩 | [ wǎng nì lǐ caǐ ] to belittle, to attack sb |
| ⇒ 抹稀泥 | [ mǒ xī ní ] see 和稀泥[huo4 xi1 ni2] |
| ⇒ 拔出蘿蔔帶出泥 | [ bá chū luó bo daì chū ní ] lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom), fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes, to cause further problems while working on a problem |
| ⇒ 拖泥帶水 | [ tuō ní daì shuǐ ] lit. wading in mud and water, a slovenly job, sloppy |
| ⇒ 拘泥 | [ jū nì ] to be a stickler for formalities, to rigidly adhere to, to cling to, constrained, ill at ease |
| ⇒ 擋泥板 | [ dǎng ní bǎn ] mudguard |
| ⇒ 棗泥 | [ zaǒ ní ] jujube paste |
| ⇒ 水泥 | [ shuǐ ní ] cement, CL:袋[dai4] |
| ⇒ 污泥 | [ wū ní ] mud, sludge |
| ⇒ 浚泥船 | [ jùn ní chuán ] dredger |
| ⇒ 淤泥 | [ yū ní ] silt, sludge, ooze |
| ⇒ 灰泥 | [ huī ní ] plaster, mortar |
| ⇒ 燕子銜泥壘大窩 | [ yàn zi xián ní leǐ dà wō ] the swallow's nest is built one beakful of mud at a time (idiom), many a little makes a mickle |
| ⇒ 爛泥 | [ làn ní ] mud, mire |
| ⇒ 爛泥扶不上牆 | [ làn ní fú bù shàng qiáng ] useless (idiom), worthless, inept |
| ⇒ 爛泥糊不上牆 | [ làn ní hú bù shàng qiáng ] see 爛泥扶不上牆|烂泥扶不上墙[lan4 ni2 fu2 bu4 shang4 qiang2] |
| ⇒ 爛醉如泥 | [ làn zuì rú ní ] lit. as drunk as mud, completely drunk |
| ⇒ 白水泥 | [ baí shuǐ ní ] white cement |
| ⇒ 硅酸鹽水泥 | [ guī suān yán shuǐ ní ] Portland cement |
| ⇒ 綠泥石 | [ lǜ ní shí ] chlorite (geology) |
| ⇒ 脫泥 | [ tuō ní ] to remove mud, desliming (in coal production) |
| ⇒ 膠泥 | [ ní ] clay |
| ⇒ 芋泥 | [ yù ní ] yam paste (a snack in Chaozhou cuisine) |
| ⇒ 草泥馬 | [ caǒ ní mǎ ] grass mud horse, used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈[cao4 ni3 ma1], to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet |
| ⇒ 蘿蔔快了不洗泥 | [ luó bo le bù xǐ ní ] when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom), fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality |
| ⇒ 軟泥 | [ ruǎn ní ] soft mud, silt, sludge, ooze (geology) |
| ⇒ 軟泥兒 | [ ruǎn ní ] erhua variant of 軟泥|软泥[ruan3 ni2] |
| ⇒ 鋼筋水泥 | [ gāng jīn shuǐ ní ] reinforced concrete |
| ⇒ 鋼骨水泥 | [ gāng gǔ shuǐ ní ] reinforced concrete |
| ⇒ 雪泥 | [ xuě ní ] dirty snow, slush, abbr. for 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪[xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3] |
| ⇒ 雪泥鴻爪 | [ xuě ní hóng zhaǒ ] a goose's footprint in the snow, vestiges of the past (idiom), the fleeting nature of human life (idiom) |
| ⇒ 馬鈴薯泥 | [ mǎ líng shǔ ní ] mashed potato |
| ⇒ 鷹嘴豆泥 | [ yīng zuǐ doù ní ] hummus |
