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利
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Han character
利 (radical 18 刀+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中弓 (HDLN), four-corner 22900, composition ⿰禾刂)
Derived characters
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 138, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1932
- Dae Jaweon: page 313, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 329, character 2
- Unihan data for U+5229
Chinese
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 利
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (利) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 犂 | *riːl, *ril |
| 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 |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 禾 (“grain”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to reap grain (禾) with a knife (刀).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): lei6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): li
- Min Dong (BUC): lé / lê
- Min Nan (POJ): lāi / lī
- Wu (Wiktionary): li (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: lih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
- IPA (key): /li⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: lei6
- Yale: leih
- Cantonese Pinyin: lei6
- IPA (key): /lei̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: li
- Hakka Romanization System: li
- Hagfa Pinyim: li4
- IPA: /li⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: lé / lê
- IPA (key): /l̃ɛi²¹³/, /l̃ɛi²⁴²/
- Note: lê - sense “sharp” only.
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāi / lī
- Tâi-lô: lāi / lī
- Phofsit Daibuun: lai, li
- IPA (Xiamen): /laɪ²²/, /li²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /laɪ⁴¹/, /li⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /laɪ²²/, /li²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /laɪ³³/, /li³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /laɪ³³/, /li³³/
- Note: lāi - vernacular; lī - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: li (T3)
- IPA (key): /li²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 利 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力至切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/liɪH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/liH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ljɪH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/liH/ |
| Li Rong |
/liH/ |
| Wang Li |
/liH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/liH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
lì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 利 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
lì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ lijH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*C.ri[t]-s/ |
| English | sharp; profit |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 利 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7898 |
| Phonetic component |
利 |
| Rime group |
至 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
利 |
| Old Chinese |
/*rids/ |
Definitions
利
- benefit; advantage
- (finance) interest
- to benefit; to be beneficial to
- favourable; successful
- sharp; sharp-edged
- A surname.
Compounds
Derived terms from 利
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Japanese
Kanji
利
Readings
Compounds
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 利 |
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り Grade: 4 |
| on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 利 (lijH, “profit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3