lichee

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

劦 sound component

  Sound component

xiéliè

  

cooperate, combined labor

Evolution

荔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
荔 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
荔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

lichee; litchi

() 

variant of [lì]

Most common words with 荔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

荔枝

litchi or lychee fruit (Litchi chinensis Sonn.)

variant of 荔[lì]

荔湾区

Liwan district of Guangzhou city 廣州市|广州市[Guǎng​zhōu​shì], Guangdong

荔波

Libo county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[Qián​nán​zhōu], Guizhou

荔波县

Libo county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[Qián​nán​zhōu], Guizhou

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤep-s

lejH

herb whose roots are made into brushes


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3848th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+8354

Shuowen

“荔,艸也。似蒲而小,根可作。从艸,劦聲。”


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