蠡

蠡 · lí / lǐ

wood-boring insect; bore into wood

Entry ↗

Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
lí · lǐ
Cantonese
lai5
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

wood-boring insect; bore into wood

Dictionary definitions & readings

蠡 lí · calabash

蠡 lǐ · wood-boring insect

CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · 2026-10-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
42903.050:lǐ,lí,luǒ,luó,lì Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
0692.110:lí 0695.090:lǐ Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
215.180:lí 216.110:lǐ Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
lǐ粵lai5 lí粵lai4,lai5 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
レイ リ ライ ラ にな ひさご Source property ↗
Korean · Hangul
려:1N Source property ↗
Vietnamese · Quốc ngữ
lãi Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
呂支 落戈 盧啓 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
VOLII Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
2713.6 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
1101.410 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
046.13 163.30 268.14 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
1241o Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+8821
Radical
虫 · 142
Strokes
21
Residual strokes
15
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 2 · #6463

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

21 strokes
蠡
Strokes
21
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

21 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
lje · 呂支 · 止開三平支來 · #112
Middle Chinese
lwa · 落戈 · 果合一平戈來 · #749
Middle Chinese
lejX · 盧啓 · 蟹開四上齊來 · #1393

PHONO-ML, source line 984; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
1200.601
kDaeJaweon
1565.130
kFennIndex
297.03
kGSR
1241o
kHanYu
42903.050
kIRGDaeJaweon
1565.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
42903.050
kIRGKangXi
1101.410
kKangXi
1101.410
kMatthews
3894
kMeyerWempe
1680j
kMorohashi
33796 33796:E0101
kSBGY
046.13 163.30 268.14
kSMSZD2003Index
623.08
kCangjie
VOLII
kFenn
287K
kFourCornerCode
2713.6
kHKGlyph
3662
kMojiJoho
MJ023807 MJ023807:E0101 MJ023808:E0102 MJ023809:E0103
kPhonetic
558 770 1400
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kIICore
AGTJH
kIRG_GSource
G0-733B
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C4F9
kIRG_JSource
J0-6A42
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-72EC
kIRG_KSource
K1-5E43
kIRG_TSource
T1-7B26
kIRG_USource
UTC-00154
kIRG_VSource
V1-663D
kRSUnicode
142.15
kTotalStrokes
21
kBigFive
C4F9
kCCCII
21573D
kCNS1986
1-7B26
kCNS1992
1-7B26
kEACC
21573D
kGB0
8327
kGB1
8327
kJis0
7434
kKoreanName
2015
kMainlandTelegraph
5867
kTGH
2013:6463
kTaiwanTelegraph
5867
kXerox
277:101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6567+142.6.15
kCantonese
lai5
kDefinition
wood-boring insect; bore into wood
kFanqie
呂支 落戈 盧啓
kHangul
려:1N
kHanyuPinyin
42903.050:lǐ,lí,luǒ,luó,lì
kJapanese
レイ リ ライ ラ にな ひさご
kJapaneseKun
HISAGO NINA
kJapaneseOn
REI RAI RI
kKorean
LYE
kMandarin
lí
kSMSZD2003Readings
lǐ粵lai5 lí粵lai4,lai5
kTGHZ2013
215.180:lí 216.110:lǐ
kTang
lěi
kVietnamese
lãi
kXHC1983
0692.110:lí 0695.090:lǐ

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Structure & connections

0.10
4dictionary records using 蠡0forms using this shape1attributed sound links
⿱ Above / below

Shape description
彖 above 䖵 · the same shape in all seven regional standards (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam)
Source notation ^⿱彖䖵$(GHTJKPV)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿱彖䖵$(GHTJKPV)

^⿱𧰲䖵$(U)

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