lì
power
Pictograph of a plow, which requires strength to operate.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.rək | lik | lì | strength |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 96.2518% of movies
184th most common character in movies
106th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 2 |
Unicode | U+529B |
Shuowen | “力,筋也。象人筋之形。治功曰力,能圉大災。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.918-919
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