lì
bend, violate, transgress
Depicts a dog (犬) bending its body to get out from under a door (户).
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤe[t]-s | lejH | lì | transgress |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4232nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+623E |
Shuowen | “戾,曲也。从犬出戶下。戾者,身曲戾也。” |
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