妮

Woman radical on the left — the indexing radical, three crossed strokes picturing a kneeling figure with arms folded forward. Supplies meaning: 妮 means 'girl, lass, young miss' — the affectionate diminutive 妮子 is widely used in northern dialects. Same radical anchors a huge family of female-related words: 妈, 姐, 妹, 娃.

尼 (ní) on the right supplies the sound exactly, with a slight tone-shift to nī in 妮. Same phonetic stem also feeds 泥 (mud) and 你 (you, nǐ). 尼 itself depicts a person resting against another and is widely used today in transliterations like 尼日利亚 (Nigeria); here it is purely sonic.