rustic

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

里 sound component

  Sound component

  

village

Evolution

俚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
俚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

rustic, vulgar, unpolished; mean; rustic; vulgar; unrefined; abbr. for 俚語|俚语[lǐ​yǔ], slang

 

old name for the [Lí] ethnic group

Most common words with 俚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

俚语

slang

rustic

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4358th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+4FDA

Shuowen

“俚,聊也。从人,里聲。”


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