lì
trickle
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 歷 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 瀝
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
asphalt | ||
to drip | ||
to work one's heart out | ||
(onom.) patter of rain | ||
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
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+701D |
Shuowen | “瀝,浚也。从水,歷聲。一曰水下滴瀝。” |
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