Chinese surname · rank 462
乜
乜 is read as niè.
niè
Simplified and traditional 乜
to squint; Cantonese: what, huh
Earth
Time: Western Zhou tradition, 1046-771 BCE
Place: Niebei around Chiping, Shandong in the fief-name layer; Henan and Hebei migration notes; northern Tiele / Shandong changed-surname layers treated separately.
Origin note
Nie/乜 is treated as a rare surname with both fief-name and changed-surname traditions. The Han-lineage account says Lu Heng received Niebei as a fief, used Nie, and descendants later changed to the graph 乜 for lineage distinction. Other sources record northern or non-Han layers, including Yeliehe and Shandong Yexian-to-Nie changes. The page records these as separate layers.
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