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English definition whetstone; grind, sharpen; whet
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system li4
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) lì(146)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 *liɛ̀i
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system lai6
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system lai6
Japanese (Kana) ライ レイ レツ はげしい
Japanese (Hepburn) to togu kosuru
Sino-Japanese rei rai retsu rechi
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system lye
Hangul 려:1N
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ lẹ
Simplified variants
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Unicode radical / stroke count + 13
Unicode total stroke count 14
Cangjie MTWB
Four corner code 7122.7
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 2
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 1, page 77, character 17
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 163, position 9
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 371, position 11
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0340a
Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese, Bernhard Karlgren, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1974 539
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 231, row 3, position 41
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 378, character 46
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 80, character 17
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 577F
page 298, position 5
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 773 866
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 3906
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 2216
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 1473a
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 0459
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 0831
Taiwan telegraph code 0632
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 21426 / 53B2