lí
pear
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 利 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 梨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pear | ||
Chinese white pear (Pyrus × bretschneideri) | ||
Sydney, capital of New South Wales, Australia (Tw) | ||
pear | ||
pineapple |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 2.0503% of movies
2725th most common character in movies
3004th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+68A8 |
Shuowen | “棃，果名。从木，聲。，古文利。” |
Sources
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