俚
lǐ

rustic

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 里 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

里
里 Sound component
lǐ, li village

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrɯʔ

說文解字

聊也。从人里聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)