力

See also カ, 九, and 丸

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – an arm bending out from the side of the body.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

力 (radical 19 力+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 大尸 (KS), four-corner 4002₇)

1. power, capability, influence

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/力
• 男 另

See also

• カ (Japanese katakana)

References

• KangXi: page 146, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2288
• Dae Jaweon: page 327, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 364, character 4
• Unihan data for U+529B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

力 (jyutping lik6, Yale lik6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

力 (POJ li̍t, Guangdong lit⁸, Hagfa Pinyim lid6)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

力 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: りょく (ryoku), りき (riki)
• Kun: ちから (chikara), りき-む (力む, riki-mu)
• Nanori: いさお (isao), いさむ (isamu), お (o), か (ka), ちか (chika), ちから (chikara), じから (jikara), つとむ (tsutomu), よし (yoshi)

Compounds

• 動力 (どうりき, dōriki; or どうりょく, dōryoku): energy
• 気力 (きりょく, kiryoku): spirit; drive; morale; vigor
• 斥力 (せきりょく, sekiryoku): repulsive forces
• 引力 (いんりょく, inryoku): attractive forces

Noun

力 (hiragana ちから, romaji chikara)

1. strength; power; force
2. (tarot): strength; the eleventh trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.

Coordinate terms

• タロット (tarotto): The tarot.

Proper noun

力 (hiragana ちから, romaji Chikara)

1. A male given name

Suffix

力 (hiragana りょく, romaji ryoku)

1. strength, power

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Korean

Noun

力 (yeog, ryeog, hangeul 힘)

1. strength, power

Verb

力 (yeog, ryeog) 

1. to endeavor

Adverb

力 (yeog, ryeog)

1. strivingly

Compounds

• 魔力 (마력, maryeok)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

力 (pinyin lì (li4), Wade-Giles li⁴)

Compounds

Beginning with 力

力避 力臂 力不从心 (力不從心) 力不到，不為財 力不胜任 力促 力挫 力场 / 力場 (force field) 力持 力畜 力道 力点/力点點 力度

力攻 力荐 力竭声嘶 力戒 (to guard against, use all one's effort to avoid) 力矩 力量 力谋 力排众议 力气 力气活，力气活儿 力钱 力求

力所能及 力士 力水 力图 力挽狂澜 力行 力学 / 力學 力阻 力作 力战 力争 力证 力主

Not beginning with 力

吃力 (chī lì) (to exert strenuous effort; strenuously, difficultly) 财力 / 財力 抵抗力 分力 (subdivision of forces) 记忆力 / 記憶力 尽力 精力 劳力 / 勞力 魅力 免疫力 能力 脑力 / 腦力 凝聚力

魄力 潜力 巧克力 (qiǎokèlì) (chocolate) 生产力 实力 势力 视力 说服力

体力 威力 听力 吸引力 想像力 毅力 阻力 用力 战斗力 / 戰鬥力 智力

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Middle Chinese

Han character

力 (*liək)

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Vietnamese

Han character

力 (lực)