Unicode: U+5389

Pinyin: lì

Definition

* 严格。 ~禁(➊列队警戒;➋严厉的禁令)。~行( xíng )节约。 * 严肃。 严~。声色俱~。 * 凶猛。 ~害。雷~风行。色~内荏。 * 磨,使锋利。 ~兵秣马。再接再~。 * 古同"疠"、"癞",恶疮。 * 姓

whetstone; grind, sharpen; whet

Structure

厉 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
33_E79533_E79634_E5F533_E797
Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_53B227_E7E6
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
83_F7A583_F7A683_F7A783_F7A8

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC