lì
subservient
Phonosemantic compound. 柰 represents the sound, 隶 represents the meaning.
Evolution

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤə[p]-s | lejH | lì | subordinate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.9998% of movies
2050th most common character in movies
1801st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+96B8 |
Shuowen | “隸,附箸也。从隶,柰聲。,篆文隸从古文之體。” |
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