lì
grain
Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 立 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
lì
grain; small particle; granule; classifier for small round things (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*p.rəp | lip | lì | grains of rice |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.9907% of movies
2228th most common character in movies
1714th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+7C92 |
Shuowen | “粒，糂也。从米，立聲。” |
Sources
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