Definify.com

Definition 2025

厲

厲

厲 U+53B2, 厲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53B2
← 厱
[U+53B1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 厳 →
[U+53B3]
See also: 厉

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. whetstone
  2. grind, sharpen
  3. whet
  4. A surname​.

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

trad. 厲
simp. 厉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 厲
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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

Pronunciation

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /liajH/
Li
Rong		 /liɛiH/
Wang
Li		 /lĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lì
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		 /*[r]at-s/ /*[r]at-s/ /*[r]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. *[t] 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. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

Japanese

Kanji

厲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings

Korean

Hanja

厲 • ‎(ryeo) (hangeul 려, revised ryeo, McCune-Reischauer ryŏ)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

厲 (lẹ, lệ)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Similar Results