荔

Translingual

Han character

荔 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿大尸尸 (TKSS), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹劦)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1031, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30865
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3212, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8354

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Chinese

trad.		荔
simp. #		荔
alternative forms		茘／荔 艻 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 荔
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (劦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
栛	*reːbs
珕	*reːbs, *rebs
荔	*reːbs, *rebs
脅	*hlams, *hlab
姭	*hlams
搚	*raːb, *raːb
拹	*hlab
愶	*hlab
嗋	*hlab
熁	*hlab
協	*ɦleːb
勰	*ɦleːb
劦	*ɦleːb
叶	*ɦleːb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *reːbs, *rebs) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 劦 (OC *ɦleːb).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 荔

1. Alternative name for 馬藺／马蔺 (“Iris lactea”).
2. Short for 荔枝 (lìzhī, “lychee”).
3. Used in 薜荔 (bìlì).
4. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

荔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: らい (rai); り (ri)
• Kan-on: れい (rei); り (ri)
• On: れん (ren)
• Kun: おおにら (ōnira, 荔)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 荔 (lệ, lê)

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