李
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Translingual[edit]
Han character[edit]
李 (radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木弓木 (DND), four-corner 40407, composition ⿱木子)
References[edit]
- 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
Chinese[edit]
| simp. and trad. |
李 | |
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Glyph origin[edit]
| Historical forms of the character 李 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (子) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 孜 | *ʔslɯ |
| 仔 | *ʔslɯ, *ʔslɯʔ |
| 孖 | *ʔslɯ, *zlɯs |
| 子 | *ʔslɯʔ |
| 虸 | *ʔslɯʔ |
| 耔 | *ʔslɯʔ |
| 秄 | *ʔslɯʔ |
| 杍 | *ʔslɯʔ |
| 籽 | *ʔslɯʔ |
| 字 | *zlɯs |
| 茡 | *zlɯs |
| 芓 | *zlɯs |
| 牸 | *zlɯs |
| 李 | *rɯʔ |
Oracle bone script: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rɯʔ): phonetic 來 (OC *m·rɯːɡ, “fruit”) + semantic 子. The phonetic part 來 became gradually corrupted to yield 木 (“tree”).
Shuowen erroneously remarks that this is a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rɯʔ): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Definitions[edit]
李
- plum (tree and fruit)
- (astronomy) Zeta Virginis
- † Alternative form of 理 (lǐ, “judge; justice”).
- A surname, listed fourth in the Baijiaxing
Usage notes[edit]
In mainland China and among its expatriates, this surname is generally romanized as "Li" in accordance with the Hanyu Pinyin system. Although an identical transliteration is used in Wade-Giles, similarity to the English surname has made the romanization "Lee" more common in Hong Kong and Taiwan. A notable example of this is Bruce Lee.
Descendants[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
Readings[edit]
Noun[edit]
李 (hiragana すもも, rōmaji sumomo)
Alternative forms[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
李 (katakana リ, hiragana り, rōmaji Ri)
- Japanese reading of the Chinese or Korean surname.
李 (katakana リー, hiragana りい, rōmaji Rī)
- Japanese reading of the Chinese surname.
李 (katakana イ, hiragana い, rōmaji I)
- Japanese reading of the South Korean surname.
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
李 (eumhun 자두 리 (jadu ri), South Korea 자두 이 (jadu i))
- (North Korea) 리, (South Korea) 이: the second most common surname in Korea
- (North Korea) 리, (South Korea) 이: plum
Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
李 (lí, lý)
- A Vietnamese family name.
- An unisex given name.
References[edit]
- CJK Unified Ideographs block
- Han script characters
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
- Han phono-semantic compounds
- Middle Chinese lemmas
- Old Chinese lemmas
- Chinese lemmas
- Mandarin lemmas
- Cantonese lemmas
- Hakka lemmas
- Min Dong lemmas
- Min Nan lemmas
- Wu lemmas
- Chinese nouns
- Mandarin nouns
- Cantonese nouns
- Hakka nouns
- Min Dong nouns
- Min Nan nouns
- Wu nouns
- Chinese proper nouns
- Mandarin proper nouns
- Cantonese proper nouns
- Hakka proper nouns
- Min Dong proper nouns
- Min Nan proper nouns
- Wu proper nouns
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Chinese hanzi
- Chinese Han characters
- zh:Astronomy
- Chinese terms with obsolete senses
- Chinese surnames
- Japanese Han characters
- Kanji used for names
- Japanese kanji with kun reading すもも
- Japanese kanji with kan'on reading り
- Japanese kanji with goon reading り
- Japanese kanji with nanori reading もも
- Japanese kanji with nanori reading い
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji
- Japanese terms written with one Han script character
- Japanese terms spelled with 李
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese words with multiple readings
- ja:Foods
- ja:Fruits
- Korean lemmas
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- North Korean
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