Chinese Character Wiki
例

lì

example

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 列 represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

亻 is a component form of 人.

列 sound component

列  Sound component

liè

  

arrange

Evolution

例 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
例 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

例  

lì

precedent, example; regulation; example; precedent; rule; case; instance

Most common words with 例
Freq.
Word
Meaning

例

example

比例

scale

例如

for example

例子

case

例外

exception

Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 32.2761% of movies

1199th most common character in movies

547th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+4F8B

Shuowen

“例，比也。从人，聲。”


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