沥 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

lì

trickle

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 历 represents the sound. Simplified form of 瀝.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

历 Sound component

lì

history

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

lì

trickle, drip; strain; dregs; to drip; to strain or filter; a trickle

Most common words with 沥

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	沥青	asphalt
	沥	to drip
	呕心沥血	to work one's heart out
	淅沥	(onom.) patter of rain
	披肝沥胆	lit. to open one's liver and drip gall (idiom); wholehearted loyalty

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3598th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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