How to write 呢 (ne, “used in questions to link back to prior discours”)

呢, an HSK 1 character, is read ne for “used in questions to link back to prior discours” and “indicating”, and also ní (“dense wool fabric”). As a left-right character it splits into 口 (“mouth”, the radical), strokes 1–3; 尼 (“Buddhist nun”), strokes 4–8, written the left part first. On its own it is an HSK 1 word, and it forms 呢子 (“dense wool fabric”), 怎么说呢 (“Why is that?”) and 着呢 (“comes at the end of the sentence”). Japanese reads it ji, “emphatic final”.

Pinyin

ne, ní

Strokes

8

HSK

1

Radical

口 (“mouth”)