beautiful

Simplified form of . Pictograph of a deer (鹿) with two beautiful antlers. The traditional component 鹿 was removed for simplification.

Components
◎ iconic component

  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts two beautiful antlers on the head of a deer.

鹿 deleted component

鹿  Deleted component

  

deer

The traditional component 鹿 was removed for simplification.

Evolution

丽 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
丽 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
丽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
丽 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
丽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

beautiful, magnificent, elegant; beautiful

() 

Korea

Most common words with 丽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

美丽

beautiful

beautiful

玛丽

Mali

华丽

gorgeous

伊丽莎白

Elizabeth (person name)

Component uses

Sound component in 7 characters (0 verified)

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 39.4041% of movies

605th most common character in movies

834th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+4E3D


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