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Pinyin: niè
English Definition: guidepost; rule; standard; limit; target (old)
Chinese Definition:
①箭靶子。
②古代测日影的标杆。
③标准,法式:圭臬。
Total strokes: 10; Radical:
Ideographic: A notice posted on a tree
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ ] self; private, personal; from
    • [ ] tree; wood, lumber; wooden
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Example Words
奉为圭臬 fèng wéi guī niè to take as a guiding principle (idiom)
兀臬 niè variant of 杌陧
臬台 niè tái provincial judge (in imperial China)
臬氧 niè yǎng ozone (O3); erroneous form of 臭氧
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Example Sentences
1
Are you going to the beach this saturday afternoon?
2
They exude the stale mustiness of library bookshelves without the passion of the great literature those libraries contain.
3
I can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like in the trenches, living amongst the stench of death and knowing that at any moment it may be your last.
4
He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers , judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up.
5
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.