莅

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See also: 蒞 and 涖
莅 U+8385, 莅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8385
← 莄
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 莆 →

Translingual

Han character

莅 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿人卜廿 (TOYT), four-corner 44218, composition ⿱艹位)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1033, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31024
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1492, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3221, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8385

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (立) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涖 *rɯːbs, *rɯbs
莅 *rɯbs, *rɯbs
蒞 *rɯbs
位 *ɢʷrɯbs
拉 *ruːb
菈 *ruːb
颯 *sluːb
立 *rɯb
粒 *rɯb
笠 *ɡ·rɯb
砬 *rɯb
岦 *rɯb
苙 *ɡ·rɯb, *ɡrɯb
鴗 *rɯb
雴 *r̥ʰɯb
泣 *kʰrɯb

Found in various historical dictionaries such as Yupian 《玉篇 (Yùpiān)》 and Guangyun 《廣韻 (Guǎngyùn)》.

In the 1956 first round revision table of variant Chinese characters (第一批异体字整理表) by the People's Republic of China, 蒞／莅 (lì) and 涖 (lì) were listed as variant forms that were replaced by 莅 as the orthodox form.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 莅 – see 蒞 (“to attend; to arrive; to manage”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 蒞).
Notes:

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 莅 – see 涖 (“drying up of water ; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of 涖).
Notes:

Usage notes

  • In mainland China, 蒞／莅 (lì) and 涖 (lì) are considered as variant forms of 莅 which is used as the orthodox form.
  • In Taiwan, 蒞／莅 (lì) is considered as the orthodox form while 涖 (lì) is a variant form of 蒞／莅 (lì). This character, 莅 is a rarely encountered character (生僻字 (shēngpìzì)) in modern Taiwan.

References

Japanese

Kanji

莅

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): り (ri)、れい (rei)
  • Kun: のぞむ (nozomu)

Korean

Hanja

莅 • (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune–Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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