Chinese Character Wiki
栗

lì

chestnut tree, chestnuts

Depicts a tree (木) with chestnuts.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts chestnuts.

木 iconic component

木  Iconic component

mù

  

tree

Evolution

栗 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
栗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
栗 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
栗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

栗 (慄) 

lì

shiver, shudder, tremble; tremble; afraid; trembling

栗  

Lì

surname Li

栗  

lì

chestnut

Most common words with 栗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

栗

afraid

栗子

chestnut

板栗

Chinese chestnut

颤栗

to tremble

不寒而栗

shudder

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

慄

Sound component in 2 characters (0 verified)

傈 篥

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]i[t]

lit

lì

chestnut tree


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.3066% of movies

2673rd most common character in movies

2595th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

慄

Unicode

U+6817

Shuowen

“，木也。从木，其實下垂，故从。，古文从西、从二。徐巡說。木至西方戰。”


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