荔

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荔 U+8354, 荔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8354
← 荓
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 荕 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

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

Chinese

trad. 荔
simp. # 荔
2nd round simp. 艻
alternative forms 茘

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).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • nāi/lāi/nǎi/nūi - vernacular;
  • lē, liān - literary.
Note:
  • noi7 - vernacular;
  • li6 - literary.
Rime
Character 荔 荔
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 支 (11) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III IV
Fanqie 力智切 郎計切
Baxter ljeH lejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liᴇH/ /leiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/liɛH/ /leiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljɛH/ /lɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/liə̆H/ /lɛjH/
Li
Rong 		/lieH/ /leiH/
Wang
Li 		/lǐeH/ /lieiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/lie̯H/ /lieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lì lì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lei6 lai6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 荔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lejH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁep-s/
English herb whose roots are made into brushes

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 荔 荔
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13776 13777
Phonetic
component 		劦 劦
Rime
group 		蓋 蓋
Rime
subdivision 		2 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		麗 詈
Old
Chinese 		/*reːbs/ /*rebs/

Definitions

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

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

荔

(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)

Vietnamese

Han character

荔: Hán Nôm readings: lệ, lê

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