lí
a fox-like animal
Phonosemantic compound. 豸 represents the meaning and 里 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p.rə | li | lí | kind of wild cat |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 3.1716% of movies
2318th most common character in movies
2738th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+8C8D |
Shuowen | “貍，伏獸，似貙。从豸，里聲。” |
Sources
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