lí
surname
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 黎
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Paris, capital of France | ||
dark | ||
Lebanon | ||
dawn | ||
Puerto Rico, self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤij (Cf. 耆 0552l gij < *[g]rij ‘old’) | lej | lí | old |
*[r]ˤij | lej | lí | black |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.2468% of movies
1484th most common character in movies
1476th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+9ECE |
Shuowen | “,履黏也。从黍,省聲。,古文利。作履黏以黍米。” |
Sources
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