匿

nì
#2,798 most
frequent character
to hide

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

匿 has 匚 a box as its picture part and 若 ruò as a sound part. The box suggests hiding something away, so the first meaning was to hide or conceal. That grew to mean hidden. The sound link from 若 is not obvious in Mandarin.

Drawn as: a box

匿 as a component in other characters

sound1 character
暱
picture1 character
慝

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Homophones

逆nì
to go against, to defy
泥nì
restrained

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