léi

thick

Evolution

靁 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
靁 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
靁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

léi

thick, strong; old variant of [léi]

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.rˤuj

lwoj

léi

thunder


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

23

Unicode

U+9741

Shuowen

“靁,陰陽薄動,靁雨生物者也,从雨,畾象回轉形。,古文靁。,古文靁。,籀文,靁間有回,回,靁聲也。”


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