厲

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See also: 厉
厲 U+53B2, 厲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53B2
← 厱
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 厳 →

Translingual

Han character

厲 (Kangxi radical 27, 厂+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一廿田月 (MTWB), four-corner 71227, composition ⿸厂萬)

Derived characters

Additional Derived Characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 163, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3041
  • Dae Jaweon: page 371, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 77, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+53B2

Chinese

trad. 厲
simp. 厉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 厲
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
糲 *m·raːds, *m·rads, *m·raːd
犡 *m·raːds, *m·rads
噧 *hmreːds, *r̥ʰaːd
邁 *mraːds
勱 *mraːds
蠆 *m̥ʰraːds
厲 *m·rads
勵 *m·rads
礪 *m·rads
蠣 *m·rads
蠇 *m·rads
癘 *m·rads
濿 *m·rads
櫔 *m·rads
巁 *m·rads
贎 *m·rads, *mlans
萬 *mlans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *m·rads): semantic 厂 + abbreviated phonetic 蠆 (OC *m̥ʰraːds).

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • lī - vernacular;
  • lē - literary.
Rime
Character 厲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 祭 (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力制切
Baxter ljejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/liɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/liajH/
Li
Rong 		/liɛiH/
Wang
Li 		/lĭɛiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lai6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 厲 厲 厲
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lì lì lì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljejH › ‹ ljejH › ‹ ljejH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*at-s/ /*at-s/ /*at-s/
English cruel grindstone epidemic

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 厲
Reading # 1/1
No. 12621
Phonetic
component 		萬
Rime
group 		祭
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		例
Old
Chinese 		/*m·rads/

Definitions

厲

  1. fierce; stern
  2. severe; strict
    嚴厲／严厉  ―  yánlì  ―  strict; stern; sever
  3. ferocious
  4. (Classical) Same as 礪／砺 (lì, “whetstone; to sharpen”).
  5. (literary) to encourage; to urge
  6. (literary) to raise; to exert
  7. (Cantonese) to glare
    Alternative forms: 矋 (lai6), 𧢝 / 𲁔
  8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 濿 / 𪵱 (lì, “to ford”)
  9. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

厲

  1. Same as 癩／癞 (lài).

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

厉

Print
standard

厲

Kanji

厲

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 厉)

  1. whetstone
    Synonym: 礪
  2. grind
  3. sharpen
  4. make an effort to
    Synonym: 励
  5. leprosy
    Synonym: 癩

Readings

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Compounds

Korean

Hanja

厲 (eum 려 (ryeo))

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Vietnamese

Han character

厲: Hán Nôm readings: lẹ, lệ

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