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歷

lì

experience, history

Original meaning: 

pass through

Phonosemantic compound. 止 (foot) represents the meaning and 厤 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "pass through". The meaning later expanded to also include "experience" and "history".

Components
厤 sound component

厤  Sound component

lì

  

calendar

止 meaning component

止  Meaning component

zhǐ

  

(foot), stop

Depicts a foot

Evolution

歷 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
歷 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
歷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
歷 Clerical script Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
歷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

历 (歷) 

lì

take place, past, history; to experience; to undergo; to pass through; all; each; every; history

Most common words with 歷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

历史

history

经历

experience

历史上

historical

学历

educational background

简历

résumé

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

靂 瀝 櫪 癧 壢

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤek

lek

lì

pass by; in turn


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 57.3442% of movies

696th most common character in movies

480th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

历

Unicode

U+6B77

Shuowen

“歷，過也。从止，厤聲。”


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