盭 lì cruel Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Character Evolution Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC Bronze Qin 221-206 BC Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Clerical Qin 221-206 BC Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD ▼ More ▲ Less 說文解字 弻戾也。从弦省，从盩。讀若戾。 Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical images Academia Sinica Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)
