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淚

lèi

tears

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 戾 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

戾 sound component

戾  Sound component

lì

  

bend, violate, transgress

Evolution

淚 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
淚 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
淚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

泪 (淚) 

lèi

tears; weep, cry

Most common words with 淚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

眼泪

tears

泪

tears

流泪

to shed tears

泪水

teardrop

落泪

to weep

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r][ə]p-s

lwijH

lèi

tears (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.9425% of movies

1806th most common character in movies

1271st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

泪

Unicode

U+6DDA


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