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礪

礪

See also: 砺

Translingual

Han character

礪 (radical 112 石+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 一口一廿月 (MRMTB), four-corner 1162₇, composition ⿰石厲)

References

KangXi: page 838, character 23

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24571

Dae Jaweon: page 1255, character 25

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2461, character 5

Unihan data for U+792A

Chinese

trad.		礪
simp.		砺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 礪
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

Mandarin

(Pinyin): lì (li⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: lì
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
  - Wade-Giles: lih⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
  - IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: lai⁶
  - Yale: laih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lai⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯²²/

Middle Chinese: /liᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	礪
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	/liᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/liɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ljæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/liaj^H/
Li Rong	/liɛi^H/
Wang Li	/lĭɛi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[r]at-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*m·rads/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	礪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lì
Middle Chinese	‹ ljej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]at-s/
English	grindstone
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	礪
Reading #	1/1
No.	12623
Phonetic component	萬
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	例
Old Chinese	/*m·rads/

Definitions

礪

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Japanese

Kanji

礪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 砺)

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Readings

On: れい (rei)

Kun: あらと (arato), みがく (migaku), と (to)

Nanori: と (to)

Korean

Hanja

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

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