黎

Translingual

Han character

黎 (radical 202 黍+3, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹人水 (HHOE), four-corner 2713₂)

1. used as a surname
2. numerous, many
3. black
4. used to indicate the lai people of Hainan Province, China

References

• KangXi: page 1517, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47994
• Dae Jaweon: page 2049, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4759, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9ECE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

黎 (Yale lai4)

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Japanese

Kanji

黎

Readings

• On: れい (rei), り (ri)
• Kun: くろい (kuroi)

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Korean

Hanja

黎 (hangeul 려>여, revised ryeo>yeo, McCune-Reischauer ryŏ>yŏ, Yale lye>ye)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

黎 (pinyin lí (li2), Wade-Giles li²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

黎 (lei)

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Vietnamese

Lê

Han character

黎 (lê, rê) 黎 (spelt as Lê, the fourth most common surname among ethnic Vietnamese.)

Last modified on 1 December 2012, at 01:45