lì
calendar
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 厤 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 曆
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
history | ||
experience | ||
historical | ||
educational background | ||
résumé |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤek | lek | lì | calculate (astronomically) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 57.3442% of movies
696th most common character in movies
480th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+66C6 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“曆，厤象也。从日，厤聲。《史記》通用歷。” |
Sources
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