TranslingualEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 禾 (“grain”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to reap grain (禾) with a knife (刀).
Han characterEdit
利 (radical 18 刀+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中弓 (HDLN), four-corner 22900, composition ⿰禾刂)
Derived charactersEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 138, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1932
- Dae Jaweon: page 313, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 329, character 2
- Unihan data for U+5229
ChineseEdit
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利 | |
PronunciationEdit
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: lih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
- IPA (key): /li⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, rare)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄝˋ
- Wade-Giles: pieh4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bieh
- IPA (key): /pi̯ɛ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: lei6
- Yale: leih
- Cantonese Pinyin: lei6
- IPA (key): /lei̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- Romanisations:
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: li
- IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /li⁵⁵/
- Romanisations:
- Min Nan
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (利, reconstructed) | ||||||
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| Character (利), Pronunciation 1/1 | ||||||
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Initial: 來 (37) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 力至切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /liɪH/ | /liH/ | /liH/ | /liH/ | /liH/ | /liH/ | /ljɪH/ |
| Old Chinese pronunciation (利, reconstructed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 利 | lì | ‹ lijH › | /*C.ri[t]-s/ | sharp; profit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
Rime group |
Rime subdivision |
Corresponding MC rime |
Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 利 | 7898 | 利 | 至 | 1 | 利 | /*rids/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NounEdit
利
CompoundsEdit
VerbEdit
利
- to benefit
CompoundsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
利
CompoundsEdit
CompoundsEdit
- 便利店 (biànlìdiàn, "convenience store")
- 利比亞／利比亚 (Lìbǐyà, "Libya")
- 利便
- 利病
- 利害
- 利口
- 利率 (lìlǜ)
- 利落 (lìluo)
- 利尿
- 利權／利权
- 利索
- 利息
- 利息率 (lìxilǜ)
- 利嘴
JapaneseEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
利 (ri, i) (hangeul 리, 이, revised ri, i, McCune-Reischauer ri, i)
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