Chinese Character Wiki

黎

lí

surname

Evolution

黎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
黎 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
黎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

黎  

lí

surname; numerous, many; black; (literary) black; dark; many; multitude

黎  

Lí

Li ethnic group of Hainan Province; surname Li; abbr. for Lebanon 黎巴嫩[Lí​bā​nèn]

Most common words with 黎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

巴黎

Paris, capital of France

黎

dark

黎巴嫩

Lebanon

黎明

dawn

波多黎各

Puerto Rico, self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

藜

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤij (Cf. 耆 0552l gij < *[g]rij ‘old’)

lej

lí

old

*[r]ˤij

lej

lí

black


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.2468% of movies

1484th most common character in movies

1476th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+9ECE

Shuowen

“，履黏也。从黍，省聲。，古文利。作履黏以黍米。”


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