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黎

黎

Translingual

Han character

黎 (radical 202 黍+3, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹人水 (HHOE), four-corner 27132, composition ⿱𥝢⿱𠆢氺)

  1. used as a surname
  2. numerous, many
  3. black
  4. used to indicate the Li people of Hainan Province, China

References

  • KangXi: page 1517, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47994
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2049, character 36
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4759, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9ECE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 黎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (利) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *riːl) : semantic 黍 ‎(“millet”) + phonetic 利 ‎(OC *rids).

Etymology

Probably cognate with 藜 and 黧.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 黎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 郎奚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lɛj/
Li
Rong		 /lei/
Wang
Li		 /liei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /liei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 黎 黎
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lí lí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lej › ‹ lej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ˤij/ (Cf. 耆 0552l ɡij < *[ɡ]rij ‘old’) /*[r]ˤij/
English old black

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 黎
Reading # 1/1
No. 7880
Phonetic
component		 利
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 黎
Old
Chinese		 /*riːl/

Definitions

黎

  1. (only in compound, no longer productive) the color of earth, between brown and black.
    黎明  ―  límíng  ―  dawn
  2. (only in compound, no longer productive) numerous, crowded.
    黎民  ―  límín  ―  common people

Japanese

Kanji

黎

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. black, bluish black
  2. gloomy, dusky
  3. used to indicate the Li people of Hainan Province, China

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

黎 • ‎(ryeo>yeo) (hangeul 려>여, revised ryeo>yeo, McCune-Reischauer ryŏ>yŏ, Yale lye>ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

黎 (lê, rê)

  1. spelt as Lê, the fourth most common surname among ethnic Vietnamese.

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