Wiktionary

黎

黎 U+9ECE, 黎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ECE
← 黍
[U+9ECD] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 黏 →
[U+9ECF]
黎 U+F989, 黎
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F989
← 麗
[U+F988] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 力 →
[U+F98A]

Translingual Edit

Han character Edit

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

Derived characters Edit

References Edit

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

Chinese Edit

trad. 黎
simp. # 黎

Glyph origin Edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (利) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
犁 *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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *riːl): semantic 黍 (“millet”) + phonetic 利 (OC *rids).

Etymology Edit

“black; numerous”
Cognate with 黧 (“black”) (Wang, 1982).
“Li people”
From Hlai Hlai. Alleged to be used in Eastern Han dynasty book Yiwu Zhi:
《南裔異物志》謂：俚在廣州之南，俗呼俚為𥠖。 [MSC, trad.]
《南裔异物志》谓：俚在广州之南，俗呼俚为𥠖。 [MSC, simp.]
From: 顧炎武《天下郡國利病書》, early Qing dynasty
“Nányì Yìwù Zhì” wèi: Lǐ zài Guǎngzhōu zhī nán, sú hū Lǐ wèi 𥠖. [Pinyin]
(please add an English translation of this example)

Before Song dynasty, 俚 (lǐ) was a more common term.

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Pronunciation Edit

Note: lài/lai2 - surname.
Note: loi5 - surname.
Rime
Character 黎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 郎奚切
Baxter lej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lei/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lei/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɛj/
Li
Rong 		/lei/
Wang
Li 		/liei/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/liei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 黎 黎
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lí lí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lej › ‹ lej ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[r]ˁij/ (Cf. 耆 0552l ɡij < *[ɡ]rij ‘old’) /*[r]ˁij/
English old black

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 黎
Reading # 1/1
No. 7880
Phonetic
component 		利
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		黎
Old
Chinese 		/*riːl/

Definitions Edit

黎

  1. (obsolete) black
    alt. forms: 黧 (lí)
  2. (literary) numerous
    黎民  ―  límín  ―  common people
  3. until; at the time of
    黎明  ―  límíng  ―  dawn
  4. (～國) (historical) state of Li (a state in modern-day Shanxi, China, during the Shang dynasty)
  5. (～族) Li people (the largest ethnic minority in Hainan, China)
  6. Short for 黎巴嫩 (Líbānèn, “Lebanon”).
  7. a surname
    黎元洪  ―  Lí Yuánhóng  ―  Li Yuanhong (Chinese politician during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic of China)

Compounds Edit

Japanese Edit

Kanji Edit

黎

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. black, bluish black
  2. gloomy, dusky
  3. used to indicate the Li people of Hainan Province, China

Readings Edit

Compounds Edit

Compounds

Korean Edit

Hanja Edit

黎 (eum 려 (ryeo), South Korea 여 (yeo))

  1. Hanja form? of 여(黎) (“black”).

Vietnamese Edit

Han character Edit

黎: Hán Nôm readings: lê, rê

  1. spelt as Lê, the fourth most common surname among ethnic Vietnamese.
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