礼
lǐ HSK2

social custom

礼 禮 lǐ
rite noun
ceremony; rite; ritual; formality
gift noun
gift; present
etiquette adjectivenoun
courtesy; manners; politeness
to worship nounverb
(literary) to offer sacrifices to; to worship (gods, ancestors, etc.)
to treat with respect
(literary) to treat someone with courtesy; to pay respect to; to honor
Classic of Rites
(bound form) the "Classic of Rites", one of the Five Classics of Confucianism; also refers to the three ancient texts on ritual
Li
Chinese surname
propriety
(historical/literary) the code of conduct, ethics, and social norms of traditional Chinese society

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Frequency
Character
Written text
926th most common 184.0 per million
Movie subtitles
462nd most common 315.3 per million appears in 64% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
25.5 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
61.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
禮
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+793C

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