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禮

lǐ

gift

Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 豊 represents the sound. Originally written as 豊.

Components
礻 meaning component

礻  Meaning component

shì

  

show

礻 is a component form of 示.

豊 sound,meaning component

豊  Sound Meaning component

lǐ, fēng

  

abundant

Evolution

禮 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
禮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
禮 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
禮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

礼 (禮) 

lǐ

social custom; manners; courtesy; rites; gift; rite; ceremony; CL:份[fèn]; propriety; etiquette

礼 (禮) 

Lǐ

surname Li; abbr. for 禮記|礼记[Lǐ​jì], Classic of Rites

Most common words with 禮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

礼物

gift

婚礼

wedding

礼

gift

礼拜

week

葬礼

burial

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤijʔ

lejX

lǐ

propriety, ceremony


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 64.2640% of movies

462nd most common character in movies

926th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

礼

Unicode

U+79AE

Shuowen

“禮，履也，所以事神致福也。从示、从豊，豊亦聲。，古文禮。”


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