
| ní | mud/paste/pulp | 
| nì | restrained | 
| 泥 | mud clay paste | 
| 泥人 | clay figurine | 
| 泥俑 | earthen figurine | 
| 泥刀 | trowel | 
| 泥古 | stick-in-the-mud to stick to old ways stubbornly conservative | 
| 泥古不化 | conservative and unable to adapt (idiom) | 
| 泥团 | a mud pie | 
| 泥土 | earth soil mud | 
| 泥坑 | mud pit mire morass | 
| 泥块 | a clod; a lump of clay | 
| 泥坯 | moulded pottery not yet put in a kiln to bake | 
| 泥垢 | dirt; grime | 
| 泥塑 | clay sculpture; clay statuette | 
| 泥塑木雕 | be as wooden as a dummy | 
| 泥塘 | mire; bog; morass | 
| 泥夹板 | [Architecture] hawk | 
| 泥子 | putty (used by plumbers and glaziers) | 
| 泥孩 | clay doll | 
| 泥守 | stubborn and conservative | 
| 泥封 | to seal jars etc with mud, clay or lute lute luting |