痢

痢 U+75E2, 痢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75E2 ← 痡 [U+75E1] CJK Unified Ideographs 痣 → [U+75E3]

痢 U+F9E5, 痢 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9E5 ← 理 [U+F9E4] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 罹 → [U+F9E6]

Translingual

Han character

痢 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+7, 12 strokes, Cangjie input 大竹木弓 (KHDN), four-corner 0012₀, composition ⿸疒利)

1. dysentery

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 774, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22213
• Dae Jaweon: page 1184, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2675, character 11
• Unihan data for U+75E2

• Unihan data for U+F9E5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		痢
2nd round simp.		⿸疒力

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rids): semantic 疒 (“illness”) + phonetic 利 (OC *rids) – a kind of illness.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lì (li⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei¹ / lei⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lī
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶li

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lì
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴
    • Yale: lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
    • Palladius: ли (li)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lei¹ / lei⁶
    • Yale: lēi / leih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei¹ / lei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi¹ / léi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯⁵⁵/, /lei̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī
    • Tâi-lô: lī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: li
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /li²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /li²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /li³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /li³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶li
    • MiniDict: li^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³li
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /li²³/

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• Middle Chinese: lijH

Rime
Character	痢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力至切
Baxter	lijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/liH/
Shao Rongfen	/ljɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/liH/
Li Rong	/liH/
Wang Li	/liH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/liH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lei6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*rids/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	痢
Reading #	1/1
No.	7899
Phonetic component	利
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	利
Old Chinese	/*rids/
Notes	見曹操令

Definitions

痢

1. (literary) dysentery

Compounds

• 下痢 (xiàlì)
• 噤口痢
• 痢疾 (lìjí)
• 痢疾桿菌 / 痢疾杆菌
• 瘌痢 (làlì)
• 瘌痢頭 / 瘌痢头 (làlìtóu)
• 白痢 (báilì)
• 赤痢 (chìlì)

References

• “痢”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

痢

(Jōyō kanji)

1. diarrhea

Readings

• Go-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: り (ri, Jōyō)
• Kun: はらくだり (harakudari)

Korean

Hanja

痢 (eum 리 (ri), word-initial (South Korea) 이 (i))

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Vietnamese

Han character

痢: Hán Nôm readings: lị, lỵ

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