狸 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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lí

fox

Phonosemantic compound. 犭 represents the meaning and 里 represents the sound. Simplified form of 貍.

Components

犭 Meaning component

quǎn

dog

犭 is a component form of 犬.

里 Sound component

lǐ

village

Definitions

lí

fox; raccoon dog; fox-like animal

lí

variant of 狸[lí]

Most common words with 狸

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[r]ə	li	lí	𧳏狸 *pə.[r]ə kind of wild cat (Jiāngnán pron. ap. Guō Pú, ca. 300 CE)
*p.rə	li	lí	kind of wild cat (pron. west of the Hángǔ pass, ap. Fāngyán)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.1716% of movies

2318th most common character in movies

2738th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	10
Unicode	U+72F8

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