栗

See also: 慄 and 粟

Translingual

Han character

栗 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一田木 (MWD), four-corner 1090₄, composition ⿱覀木)

1. chestnut tree, chestnuts
2. used as a surname
3. shiver, shudder, tremble (simplification of 慄)

Derived characters

• 慄

References

• KangXi: page 522, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14695
• Dae Jaweon: page 910, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1195, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6817

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Chinese

simpl.		栗
trad.		栗/慄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lì, yí (li⁴, yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ, ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leot⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): lek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: lih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
    • IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: i²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: leot⁶
    • Yale: leuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loet⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /lɵt̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lek
    • Tâi-lô: lik
    • IPA (Taipei): /lɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɪk̚³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (栗, reconstructed)
Character (栗), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 來 (37) Final: 質 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 力質切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/liɪt̚/	/li̯ĕt̚/	/liĕt̚/	/lit̚/	/lit̚/	/lĭĕt̚/	/ljet̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (栗, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
栗								lì								‹ lit ›								/*[r]i[t]/								chestnut tree
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
栗					7969					栗					質					2					栗					/*riɡ/

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Japanese

Noun

栗 (hiragana くり, romaji kuri)

1. a chestnut, common horse chestnut
2. a chestnut tree

Kanji

栗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. chestnut

Readings

• On: りつ (ritsu)
• Kun: くり (kuri)

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Korean

Hanja

栗 (ryul, yul) (hangeul 률, 율, revised ryul, yul, McCune-Reischauer ryul, yul, Yale lyul, yul)

1. (밤): chestnut (fruit, tree)
   • 1431: 鄕藥採取月令 十二月 (향약채취월령 십이월, hyang-yag-chaechwi-wolryeong sib-iwol):

     芰實鄕名末栗 (기실향명말밤, gisil-hyangmyeong-malbam, "The folk name of the water caltrop fruit is coarse chestnut.")

2. (떨다): shivering, shuddering, trembling

Compounds

• 末栗 (malbam) water caltrop, (also implausibly) water chestnut

• 戰栗 (jeon-yul) shivering, trembling

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Vietnamese

Han character

栗 (lật)

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