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麗

麗

See also: 丽

Translingual

Han character

麗 (radical 198 鹿+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一一月月心 (MMBBP), four-corner 11211, composition ⿱丽鹿)

  1. beautiful, lovely, pretty, fair; elegant
  2. a (typically female) given name

References

  • KangXi: page 1510, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47663
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2039, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4732, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+9E97

Chinese

trad. 麗
simp. 丽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
灑 *sreːlʔ, *sreːlʔ, *srelʔ, *srels
籭 *sreːl, *srel
躧 *sreːlʔ, *srelʔ
曬 *sreːls, *srels
廲 *reːl
驪 *reːl, *rel
鱺 *reːlʔ
欐 *reːlʔ, *reːls, *srel
丽 *reːls
麗 *reːls, *rel
儷 *reːls
鸝 *rel
酈 *rel, *reːɡ
孋 *rel
矖 *rel, *srelʔ
穲 *rel
邐 *relʔ
彲 *r̥ʰel
釃 *srel, *srelʔ, *sra
襹 *srel, *srels
纚 *srelʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 麗 麗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 支 (11) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III IV
Fanqie 呂支切 郎計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liᴇ/ /leiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liɛ/ /leiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljɛ/ /lɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /liə̆/ /lɛjH/
Li
Rong		 /lie/ /leiH/
Wang
Li		 /lǐe/ /lieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lie̯/ /lieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lí lì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 麗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ˤe-s/
English symmetrical

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 麗 麗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7914 7917
Phonetic
component		 丽 丽
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 麗 離
Old
Chinese		 /*reːls/ /*rel/

Adjective

麗

  1. beautiful

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

麗

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. lovely
  2. beautiful
  3. graceful
  4. resplendent

Readings

Compounds

  • 綺麗 (きれい) ‎(kirei): beauty
  • 口奇麗 (くちぎれい) ‎(kuchigirei): speaking elegantly, speaking clearly, speaking innocently

Proper noun

麗 ‎(hiragana れい, romaji Rei)

  1. A female given name

Korean

Hanja

麗 • ‎(ri>i, ryeo>yeo) (hangeul 리>이, 려>여, revised ri>i, ryeo>yeo, McCune-Reischauer ri>i, ryŏ>yŏ, Yale li>i, lye>ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

麗 (lệ, ly, li, lê, rạy)

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