lì
bamboo hat
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 立 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.rəp | lip | lì | bamboo-splint hat |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3278th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+7B20 |
Shuowen | “笠,簦無柄也。从竹,立聲。” |
Sources
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