river in northern Hunan province

Components

Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

water

Sound component
lǐ, fēng abundant

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangriːʔ
Unicodelěi

說文解字

水。出南陽雉衡山,東入汝。从水豊聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica