利

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

利 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中弓 (HDLN), four-corner 2290₀, composition ⿰禾刂)

Derived characters

• 痢 悧 梨

Descendants

• り
• リ

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 138, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1932
• Dae Jaweon: page 313, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 329, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5229

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		利

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 利
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 禾 (“grain”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to reap grain (禾) with a knife (刀).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ri:t (“to reap, scrape, shave, cut, sever”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007); cognate to Mizo rîit (“to scrap with a hoe”), Western Gurung [script needed] (wriqba, “to scratch”), Burmese ရိတ် (rit, “to cut, reap, mow shave”)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 利

1. benefit; advantage
2. (finance) interest
3. to benefit; to be beneficial to
4. favourable; successful
5. sharp; sharp-edged
6. a surname

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

利

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kun: きく (kiku, 利く, Jōyō)、よい (yoi, 利い)、するどい (surudoi, 利い)、とし (toshi, 利し)

Compounds

• 砂(じゃ)利(り) (jari, “gravel; child”), 砂(ざ)利(り) (zari, “gravel”)
• 利(り)益(えき) (rieki)
• 利(り)害(がい) (rigai)
• 利(り)権(けん) (riken)
• 利(り)己(こ) (riko)
• 利(り)口(こう) (rikō)
• 利(り)子(し) (rishi, “interest”)
• 利(り)鞘(ざや) (rizaya, “profit margin”)
• 利(り)息(そく) (risoku, “interest”)
• 利(り)発(はつ) (rihatsu)
• 利(り)便(べん) (riben)
• 利(り)便(べん)性(せい) (ribensei)

• 利(り)用(よう)者(しゃ) (riyōsha)
• 利(り)用(よう) (riyō)
• 利(り)率(りつ) (riritsu, “interest rate”)
• 営(えい)利(り) (eiri)
• 鋭(えい)利(り) (eiri)
• 元(がん)利(り) (ganri)
• 権(けん)利(り) (kenri)
• 功(こう)利(り) (kōri)
• 功(こう)利(り)的(てき) (kōriteki)
• 功(こう)利(り)主(しゅ)義(ぎ) (kōrishugi)
• 高(こう)利(り) (kōri)

• 高(こう)利(り)貸(が)し (kōrigashi)
• 犀(さい)利(り) (sairi)
• 薄(はく)利(り) (hakuri)
• 福(ふく)利(り) (fukuri)
• 複(ふく)利(り) (fukuri)
• 暴(ぼう)利(り) (bōri)
• 利(り)尻(しり)島(とう) (Rishiri-tō)

Etymology

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

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 利 (lij^H, “profit”).

Noun

利(り) • (ri) 

1. profit, benefit, advantage

Antonyms

• 害(がい) (gai, “damage”)

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Korean

Hanja

利 • (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune–Reischauer ri>i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

利: Hán Việt readings: lợi
利: Nôm readings: lời, lợi, rời, rơi, ráy, lì

1. chữ Hán form of lợi (“profit”).
2. Nôm form of lời (“profit; interest”).