nì yīng

Traditional: 溺嬰

溺婴 (nì yīng) is a Chinese word meaning “to drown a newborn baby (as method of infanticide)”.

Meanings

  1. 1to drown a newborn baby (as method of infanticide)

Characters in 溺婴

溺nì · to drown婴yīng · infant

Related words

婴儿infant溺水to drown溺死to drown婴infant沉溺(fig.) to indulge in; to wallow in (addiction, vice etc)沉溺variant of 沉溺[chen2 ni4]婴儿车baby carriage婴孩infant溺to drown溺variant of 尿[niao4]溺爱to spoil弃婴abandoned baby

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