| 逆 | nì | contrary; opposite; backwards; to go against; to oppose; to betray; to rebel |
| 逆定理 | nì dìng lǐ | converse theorem (math.) |
| 逆流 | nì liú | against the stream; adverse current; a counter-current; fig. reactionary tendency; to go against the trend |
| 逆光 | nì guāng | backlighting (lighting design) |
| 逆风 | nì fēng | to go against the wind; contrary wind; a headwind |
| 逆运算 | nì yùn suàn | inverse operation; inverse calculation |
| 逆转 | nì zhuǎn | to turn back; to reverse |
| 逆差 | nì chā | adverse trade balance; trade deficit |
| 逆来顺受 | nì lái shùn shòu | to resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it; to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation etc |
| 逆伦 | nì lún | unnatural relationship (parricide, incest etc); unfilial conduct; against social morals |
| 逆反 | nì fǎn | rebellious behavior; opposite; ob- |
| 逆反心理 | nì fǎn xīn lǐ | reverse psychology |
| 逆反应 | nì fǎn yìng | reverse reaction; counter-reaction; inverse response |
| 逆向 | nì xiàng | backwards; reverse direction |
| 逆向拥塞通知 | nì xiàng yōng sāi tōng zhī | Backward Explicit Congestion Notification; BECN |
| 逆喻 | nì yù | oxymoron |
| 逆回音 | nì huí yīn | inverted turn (ornament in music) |
| 逆境 | nì jìng | adversity; predicament |
| 逆夷 | nì yí | invaders (insulting term); foreign aggressors |
| 逆子 | nì zǐ | unfilial son |
| 逆序 | nì xù | inverse order |
| 逆心 | nì xīn | unfavorable; undesired |
| 逆戟鲸 | nì jǐ jīng | (zoo.) orca; killer whale |
| 逆料 | nì liào | to foresee; to predict |
| 逆断层 | nì duàn céng | reverse fault (geology); compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees |
| 逆旅 | nì lǚ | guest-house; inn |
| 逆映射 | nì yìng shè | inverse map (math.) |
| 逆时针 | nì shí zhēn | anticlockwise; counterclockwise |
| 逆水 | nì shuǐ | against the current; upstream |
| 逆水行舟 | nì shuǐ xíng zhōu | lit. a boat going against the current (idiom); fig. you must work harder |
| 逆流溯源 | nì liú sù yuán | to go back to the source |
| 逆产 | nì chǎn | traitor's property; breech delivery |
| 逆耳 | nì ěr | unpleasant to hear; grates on the ear (of home truths) |
| 逆耳之言 | nì ěr zhī yán | speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths; home truths (that one does not want to hear) |
| 逆臣 | nì chén | rebellious minister |
| 逆行 | nì xíng | to go the wrong way; to go against one-way traffic regulation |
| 逆行倒施 | nì xíng dǎo shī | to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong; to try to turn back history; a perverse way of doing things |
| 逆变 | nì biàn | reversing (e.g. electric current) |
| 逆贼 | nì zéi | renegade; traitor and bandit |
| 逆转录病毒 | nì zhuǎn lù bìng dú | reverse transcription virus; retrovirus |
| 逆转录酶 | nì zhuǎn lù méi | reverse transcriptase |
| 逆运 | nì yùn | bad luck; unlucky fate |
