狸
lí

fox

狸 lí
fox-like animal noun
A general term for various small, wild carnivores resembling a fox or a cat, such as a leopard cat.

狸猫换太子是流传已久的民间故事。

lí māo huàn tài​zǐ shì liú​chuán yǐ jiǔ de mín​jiān gù​shi.

The story of 'The Civet Cat Exchanged for a Prince' is a long-standing folk legend.

raccoon dog noun
The raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), a small canid native to East Asia.

狸的皮毛常被用来制作防寒的衣物。

lí de pí​máo cháng bèi yòng​lái zhì​zuò fáng​hán de yī​wù.

The fur of the raccoon dog is often used to make winter clothing.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,738th most common 14.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,318th most common 11.7 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.150 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.95 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+72F8

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)