藜

藜 U+85DC, 藜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85DC ← 藛 [U+85DB] CJK Unified Ideographs 藝 → [U+85DD]

Translingual

Han character

藜 (radical 140 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹竹水 (THHE), four-corner 4413₂, composition ⿱艹黎)

1. fat-hen (Chenopodium album)

References

• KangXi: page 1065, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32326
• Dae Jaweon: page 1530, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3320, character 4
• Unihan data for U+85DC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		藜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (利) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
犂
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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lí (li²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lai⁴, lei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: lí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
    • IPA ^(key): /li³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lai⁴, lei⁴
    • Yale: làih, lèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lai⁴, lei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lei⁴, léi⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯²¹/, /lei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /lei/▼

Rime
Character	藜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	郎奚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lei/
Pan Wuyun	/lei/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛj/
Li Rong	/lei/
Wang Li	/liei/
Bernard Karlgren	/liei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*riːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	藜
Reading #	1/1
No.	7886
Phonetic component	利
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	黎
Old Chinese	/*riːl/

Definitions

藜

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Compounds

• 杖藜
• 燃藜
• 羹藜唅糗
• 花藜胡哨
• 蒸藜
• 蒸藜出妻

• 蒺藜 (jílí)
• 藜床
• 藜暴
• 藜杖 (lízhàng)
• 藜羹
• 藜蕨

• 藜藿 (líhuò)
• 藜藿不採／藜藿不采
• 藜蘆／藜芦
• 配藜
• 鐵蒺藜／铁蒺藜

References

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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Japanese

Kanji

藜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): れい (rei), らい (rai)
• Kun: あかざ (akaza)

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Korean

Hanja

藜 • (ryeo>yeo) (hangeul 려>여, revised ryeo>yeo, McCune-Reischauer ryŏ>yŏ, Yale lye>ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

藜 (lê)

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