慄

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See also: 栗
慄 U+6144, 慄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6144
← 慃
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 慅 →
慄 U+F9D9, 慄
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9D9
← 律
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 栗 →

Translingual

Han character

慄 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 心一田木 (PMWD), four-corner 91094, composition ⿰忄栗)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 397, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11042
  • Dae Jaweon: page 736, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2336, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6144

Chinese

trad. 慄
simp. 栗*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (栗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
栗 *riɡ
溧 *riɡ
慄 *riɡ
鷅 *riɡ
凓 *riɡ
篥 *riɡ
麜 *riɡ
瑮 *riɡ
塛 *riɡ
搮 *riɡ

Etymology

STEDT compared this to Tibetan བྲེད་པ་ (bred pa, “to be alarmed, scared”). If the relation is to be established, then this term is derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ray-t (“fear”).

Hong Kong Cantonese “to be scared” is borrowed from Taishanese 慄 / 栗 (nut5).

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • lek/liak - vernacular (“to be scared; to become weak and limp”);
  • lit - literary.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 慄
Mandarin Beijing /li⁵¹/
Harbin /li⁵³/
Tianjin /li⁵³/
Jinan /li²¹/
Qingdao /li⁴²/
Zhengzhou /li²⁴/
Xi'an /li²¹/
Xining /l̩⁵³/
Yinchuan /li¹³/
Lanzhou /li¹³/
Ürümqi /li²¹³/
Wuhan /ni²¹³/
Chengdu /ni³¹/
Guiyang /ni²¹/
Kunming /li³¹/
Nanjing /liʔ⁵/
Hefei /liəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /liəʔ²/
Pingyao /liʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /liəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /liɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /liəʔ³/
Hangzhou /liəʔ²/
Wenzhou /li²¹³/
Hui Shexian /li²²/
Tunxi /le¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /li²⁴/
Xiangtan /ni⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /liʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /lit̚⁵/
Taoyuan /lit̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /løt̚²/
Nanning /lɐt̚²²/
Hong Kong /løt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /lit̚⁵/
/lat̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /liʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /lɛ⁴²/
Shantou (Teochew) /liak̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /lit̚⁵/
Rime
Character 慄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力質切
Baxter lit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lit̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lit̚/
Li
Rong 		/liĕt̚/
Wang
Li 		/lĭĕt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lat6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 慄
Reading # 1/1
No. 7971
Phonetic
component 		栗
Rime
group 		質
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		栗
Old
Chinese 		/*riɡ/

Definitions

慄

  1. to shiver; to shudder; to tremble
  2. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to be scared (of one's facial expression)
  3. (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) to become weak and limp (of one's arms and legs due to fear, lack of strength, etc.)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

慄

  1. (originally Taishanese, now also Hong Kong Cantonese) to be scared
    alt. forms: 劣 (Hong Kong Cantonese)
    慄到唔敢喐／栗到唔敢喐 [Taishanese]  ―  to be so scared one won't dare move

Japanese

Kanji

慄

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. fear
  2. tremble, shudder, shiver

Readings

Usage notes

This character is not used much in modern Japanese.

Korean

Hanja

慄 • (ryul>yul) (hangeul 률>율, revised ryul>yul, McCune–Reischauer ryul>yul, Yale lyul>yul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慄: Hán Nôm readings: lật

  1. translates as Lật or Rất which modifies adjectives or adverbs to mean very or extremely
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