| 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 |