Definitions
(noun)
limit; bound; extremity
(verb)
to differentiate
(noun)
origin; cause
Etymology
A young child 兒
About
The character 倪 is structurally a phono-semantic compound formed from the person radical 亻 and the component 兒, which acts as a phonetic element while carrying its own meaning of "child", initially lending 倪 the sense of an infant or young person. Over time, its semantic scope expanded to include concepts of boundaries or extremities, as observed in the compound 端倪, which denotes the faint beginnings or ends of something and thus a clue or hint. This shift from a concrete human reference to an abstract denoteion of limits facilitated its wider lexical use, and the character also functions as a surname.
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Example Sentences Hide
倪老师教我们数学。
倪华是我的好朋友。
我们找到了事件的端倪。
从这句话中看出端倪。
倪先生正在研究这个问题。
警方已经掌握了案件的端倪。
通过仔细分析，端倪逐渐显现。
倪教授在学术上有很深的造诣。