利息

Chinese

		advantage; benefit; profit advantage; benefit; profit; sharp	rest; news; interest rest; news; interest; breath
simp. and trad. (利息)		利	息

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): lìxī, lìxí

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄒㄧ, ㄌㄧˋ ㄒㄧˊ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): ni⁴ xi⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁶ sik¹

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): li-sit

  (Hailu, HRS): li^˖ sid

  (Changting, Changting Pinyin): li⁵ si²

• Northern Min (KCR): lī-sî
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lī-sek / lī-siak / lī-sit / lāi-sit / lāi-sek

  (Teochew, Peng'im): li⁶ sêg⁴ / lai⁷ sêg⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶li-shiq
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): li⁴ si¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìxī → lìxi (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄒㄧ → ㄌㄧˋ ˙ㄒㄧ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìsi̊
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴-hsi⁵
    • Yale: lì-syi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih.shi
    • Palladius: лиси (lisi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹ ɕi⁵⁵/ → /li⁵¹ ɕi¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìxí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìsí
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴-hsi²
    • Yale: lì-syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lihshyi
    • Palladius: лиси (lisi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹ ɕi³⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: ni⁴ xi⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: lixi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni²¹³ ɕi²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁶ sik¹
    • Yale: leih sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁶ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁶ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯²² sɪk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: li-sit
    • Hakka Romanization System: li xid^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: li⁴ xid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /li⁵⁵ sit̚²/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: li^˖ sid
    • Sinological IPA: /li³³ sit⁵/
  • (Changting)
    • Changting Pinyin: li⁵ si²
    • Sinological IPA: /li²¹ si²⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: lī-sî
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵⁵ si³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-sek
    • Tâi-lô: lī-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lixseg
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /li³³⁻¹¹ siɪk̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /li²²⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /li³³⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-siak
    • Tâi-lô: lī-siak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lixsiag
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /li⁴¹⁻²² siak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-sit
    • Tâi-lô: lī-sit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lixsid
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /li³³⁻¹¹ sit̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /li³³⁻²¹ sit̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /li²²⁻²¹ sit̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāi-sit
    • Tâi-lô: lāi-sit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: laixsid
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /lai²²⁻²¹ sit̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāi-sek
    • Tâi-lô: lāi-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: laixseg
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /lai³³⁻²¹ siɪk̚³²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /lai³³⁻¹¹ siɪk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: li⁶ sêg⁴ / lai⁷ sêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lĭ sek / lāi sek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li³⁵⁻¹¹ sek̚²/, /lai¹¹ sek̚²/

Note: lai7 sêg4 - Pontianak.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶li-shiq
    • MiniDict: li^去 shih
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³li-xiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /li²² ɕiɪʔ⁴⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: li⁴ si¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /li⁴⁵ si³³/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /li⁴⁵ ɕi³³/

Noun

利息

1. (finance) interest (on mortgages or savings)

   收取利息  ―  shōuqǔ lìxī  ―  to charge interest

Synonyms

edit

• 利仔錢 / 利仔钱 (Hokkien)
• 利子 (lìzi) (dated)
• 利鈿 / 利钿 (⁶li-di) (Wu)
• 利錁 / 利锞 (Puxian Min)
• 利錢 / 利钱 (lìqián)
• 子金 (zǐjīn) (literary)
• 子錢 / 子钱 (zǐqián) (historical)
• 息金 (xījīn) (literary)
• 息錢 / 息钱 (si⁶ zienn²) (Xiang)
• 錢利 / 钱利 (cièng-*lé) (Eastern Min)
• 錢息 / 钱息 (cièng-sék) (Eastern Min)

Derived terms

• 利息率 (lìxīlǜ)
• 本息 (běnxī)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (利息):

• → Japanese: 利息(りそく) (risoku)
• → Korean: 이식(利息) (isik)
• → Vietnamese: lợi tức (利息)

References

• “Entry #1856”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “利息”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 355.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
利	息
り Grade: 4	そく Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) りそく [rìsókú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲiso̞kɯ̟]

Noun

利(り)息(そく) • (risoku) 

1. (finance) interest
   • 1931, 岡本綺堂, 青蛙神:

     利息(りそく)などを取(と)ろうとするから、却(かえ)って大(おお)きい損(そん)をするのだ。

     Risoku nado o torō to suru kara, kaette ōkii son o suru no da.

     Once you take interest and so on into account, you actually end up losing a lot.

Synonyms

• 利子(りし) (rishi)

References

• “利息”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
利	息

Noun

利息

1. chữ Hán form of lợi tức