Chinese Character Wiki
麗

lì, lí

beautiful

Pictograph of a deer (鹿) with two beautiful antlers.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts two beautiful antlers on the head of a deer.

鹿 iconic component

鹿  Iconic component

lù

  

deer

Evolution

麗 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
麗 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
麗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

丽 (麗) 

lì

beautiful, magnificent, elegant; beautiful

丽 (麗) 

Lí

Korea

Most common words with 麗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

美丽

beautiful

丽

beautiful

玛丽

Mali

华丽

gorgeous

伊丽莎白

Elizabeth (person name)

Component uses

Sound component in 6 characters (1 verified)

曬 灑 儷 驪 鸝 鱺

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤe-s

lejH

lì

symmetrical


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 39.4041% of movies

605th most common character in movies

834th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

丽

Unicode

U+9E97

Shuowen

“麗，旅行也。鹿之性見食急則必旅行。从鹿，丽聲。《禮》‘麗皮納聘’，蓋鹿皮也。，古文；，篆文麗字。”


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