李

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Note 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.2 Noun 3.3 Proper noun 4 Korean 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Pronunciation 4.3 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Min Nan 7.1 Hanzi 7.1.1 Descendants 8 Vietnamese 8.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

From 木 ‘tree’ + 子 ‘children’, because of the plum tree's prolific breeding or because it was popular with children.

[edit] Han character

李 (radical 75 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木弓木 (DND), four-corner 4040₇)

1. plum
2. judge
3. a surname - see Li and Lee

[edit] Note

In mainland China or among persons from mainland China, the spelling in the Latin alphabet is generally Li because this is the spelling convention dictated by the pinyin romanization system officially adopted by the People's Republic of China. In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the romanization Lee is my name ha ha is most common, due to a more complex history of transcription systems; Li is sometimes used by persons from Taiwan, however.

Mandarin pronunciation: "lee" (with a slight dip of the Adam's apple at the first "e" sound, which then rises at the second "e" to produce the sound that hints of a question-mark accent)

Cantonese pronunciation: "lay" (with a slight dip of the Adam's apple at the "a" sound, which then rises at the "y" sound to produce a hint of a question-mark accent)

• Unihan data for U+F9E1

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 511, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14459
• Dae Jaweon: page 895, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1162, character 8
• Unihan data for U+674E

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

李 (Yale lei5)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

李

1. plum

[edit] Readings

• On: り (ri), い (i)
• Kun: すもも (sumomo)

[edit] Noun

李 (hiragana すもも, romaji sumomo)

1. plum

[edit] Proper noun

李 (katakana リ, romaji Ri)

1. Japanese reading of the Chinese or Korean surname.

李 (katakana リー, romaji Rī)

1. Japanese reading of the Chinese surname.

李 (katakana イ, romaji I)

1. Korean reading of the Korean surname.

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Etymology

From Mandarin 李 (“plum or judge”)

[edit] Pronunciation

• (North Korea) IPA: [ɾiː]
• (South Korea) IPA: [iː]

[edit] Hanja

李
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): (NK) 리, (SK) 이 (revised: Lee, (NK) ri, Rhee, (SK) i, I, McCune-Reischauer: (NK) ri, (SK) i, Yi, Yale: (NK) li, (SK) i)

• Name (hangeul): 자두(Jadu)()

1. (North Korea) 리, (South Korea) 이: the second most common surname in Korea
2. (North Korea) 리, (South Korea) 이: plum

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

李 (pinyin lǐ (li3), Wade-Giles li³)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

李 (*liə̌)

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

李 (POJ Lí)

[edit] Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Filipino: Sy

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

李 (Lý, lí)