痢 lì dysentery Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 疒 represents the meaning and 利 represents the sound. Components 疒 疒 Meaning component nè sick 利 利 Sound component lì, li benefit Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangrids Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang