Chinese Character Wiki
利

lì

benefit

Depicts harvesting grain (禾) with a blade (刂). Harvest was the main source of profit in agricultural societies.

Components
禾 iconic component

禾  Iconic component

hé

  

grain stalk

刂 iconic component

刂  Iconic component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

利 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
利 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
利 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
利 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
利 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

利  

lì

gains, advantage, profit, merit; sharp; favorable; advantage; benefit; profit; interest; to do good to; to benefit

利  

Lì

surname Li

Most common words with 利
Freq.
Word
Meaning

利用

to exploit

利

sharp

利益

benefit

胜利

victory

顺利

smoothly

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

犁 悧

Sound component in 10 characters (1 verified)

莉 梨 犁 俐 痢 蜊 猁 脷 唎 悧

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.ri[t]-s

lijH

lì

sharp; profit


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 84.6708% of movies

244th most common character in movies

155th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5229

Shuowen

“利，銛也。从刀；和然後利，从和省。《易》曰：‘利者，義之和也。’”


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