藜

藜 · lí

Chenopodium album, pigweed

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
lí
Cantonese
lai4
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

Chenopodium album, pigweed

Dictionary definitions & readings

藜 lí · name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album

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Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
53320.040:lí Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
0692.090:lí Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
215.150:lí Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
lí粵lai4 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
レイ ライ あかざ Source property ↗
Korean · Hangul
려:0N Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
郎奚 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
THHE Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
4413.2 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
1065.300 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
087.08 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
0519m Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+85DC
Radical
艸 · 140
Strokes
18
Residual strokes
15
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 2 · #6320

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

18 strokes
藜
Strokes
18
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

18 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
lej · 郎奚 · 蟹開四平齊來 · #298

PHONO-ML, source line 2762; 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
1174.604
kCowles
2203
kDaeJaweon
1530.210
kFennIndex
295.01
kGSR
0519m
kHanYu
53320.040
kIRGDaeJaweon
1530.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53320.040
kIRGKangXi
1065.300
kKangXi
1065.300
kKarlgren
528
kMatthews
3877
kMeyerWempe
1463
kMorohashi
32326:E0102
kSBGY
087.08
kSMSZD2003Index
604.01
kCangjie
THHE
kFenn
511I
kFourCornerCode
4413.2
kMojiJoho
MJ023066 MJ023066:E0101 MJ023067:E0102
kPhonetic
769 791A
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kIICore
AGTJKP
kIRG_GSource
G0-5E3C
kIRG_HSource
HB2-F2D4
kIRG_JSource
J0-693C
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-D7F5
kIRG_KSource
K0-556D
kIRG_TSource
T2-665F
kRSUnicode
140.15
kTotalStrokes
18
kBigFive
F2D4
kCCCII
23274C
kCNS1986
2-665F
kCNS1992
2-665F
kEACC
23274C
kGB0
6228
kGB1
6228
kJis0
7328
kKoreanName
2015
kMainlandTelegraph
5668
kTGH
2013:6320
kTaiwanTelegraph
5668
kXerox
275:136
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6467+140.3.15
kCantonese
lai4
kDefinition
Chenopodium album, pigweed
kFanqie
郎奚
kHangul
려:0N
kHanyuPinyin
53320.040:lí
kJapanese
レイ ライ あかざ
kJapaneseKun
AKAZA
kJapaneseOn
REI RAI
kKorean
LYE
kMandarin
lí
kSMSZD2003Readings
lí粵lai4
kTGHZ2013
215.150:lí
kTang
lei
kXHC1983
0692.090:lí
kSemanticVariant
U+853E<kSMSZD2003Index:T

Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
6dictionary records using 藜0forms using this shape1attributed sound links
⿱ Above / below

Shape description
艹 above 黎 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿱艹黎$(GHTJKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿱艹黎$(GHTJKP)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.