strive

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
厉 sound component

  Sound component

  

whetstone

力 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

power

Evolution

励 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
励 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

strive; encourage; to encourage; to urge

() 

surname Li

Most common words with 励
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鼓励

to encourage

奖励

to reward

激励

to urge

励志

to encourage

to urge

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 16.9630% of movies

1645th most common character in movies

1468th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+52B1


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