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利

利 U+5229, 利
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5229
← 刨
[U+5228]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 刪 →
[U+522A]

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 

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

simp. and trad.
 利

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 利
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
         
Characters in the same phonetic series (利) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
犂 *riːl, *ril
黎 *riːl
莉 *riːl, *r'il, *r'i
黧 *riːl
鯬 *riːl, *ril
筣 *riːl, *ri
蔾 *riːl, *ril
藜 *riːl
邌 *riːl
瓈 *riːl
鵹 *rel
棃 *ril
梨 *ril
蟍 *ril
蜊 *ril
鑗 *ril
利 *rids
痢 *rids
浰 *riːns

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 禾 (“grain”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to reap grain (禾) with a knife (刀).

PronunciationEdit

Note: lê - sense “sharp” only.
Note:
  • lāi - vernacular;
  • lī - literary.
Rime
Character 利
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力至切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /liH/
Li
Rong		 /liH/
Wang
Li		 /liH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /liH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 利
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lijH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ri[t]-s/
English sharp; profit

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 利
Reading # 1/1
No. 7898
Phonetic
component		 利
Rime
group		 至
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 利
Old
Chinese		 /*rids/

DefinitionsEdit

利

  1. benefit; advantage
  2. (finance) interest
  3. to benefit; to be beneficial to
  4. favourable; successful
  5. sharp; sharp-edged
  6. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 利

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

利

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Kanji in this term
利
り
Grade: 4
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 利 (lijH, “profit”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

利 (hiragana り, rōmaji ri)

  1. profit, benefit

AntonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

利 • (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune-Reischauer ri>i)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

利 (lợi, lời, lì)

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