lěi

eulogize

Evolution

誄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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lěi

eulogize, praise the dead; to eulogize the dead; eulogy

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ujʔ

lwijX

lěi

eulogy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5227th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+8A84

Shuowen

“誄,諡也。从言,耒聲。”


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