lì, lí
beautiful
Pictograph of a deer (鹿) with two beautiful antlers.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 麗
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
beautiful | ||
beautiful | ||
Mali | ||
gorgeous | ||
Elizabeth (person name) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤe-s | lejH | lì | symmetrical |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 39.4041% of movies
605th most common character in movies
834th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9E97 |
Shuowen | “麗,旅行也。鹿之性見食急則必旅行。从鹿,丽聲。《禮》‘麗皮納聘’,蓋鹿皮也。,古文;,篆文麗字。” |
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