Chinese Character Wiki
勵

lì

strive

Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 厲 represents the sound.

Components
厲 sound component

厲  Sound component

lì

  

whetstone

力 sound,meaning component

力  Sound Meaning component

lì

  

power

Definitions

励 (勵) 

lì

strive; encourage; to encourage; to urge

励 (勵) 

Lì

surname Li

Most common words with 勵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鼓励

to encourage

奖励

to reward

激励

to urge

励志

to encourage

励

to urge

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.9630% of movies

1645th most common character in movies

1468th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

励

Unicode

U+52F5


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