lì
stand
Pictograph of a person standing on the ground.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 立
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to establish | ||
forthwith | ||
immediately | ||
independent | ||
to establish |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.rəp | lip | lì | stand (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 63.7514% of movies
629th most common character in movies
197th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+7ACB |
Shuowen | “立,住也。从大,立一之上。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.782-783
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