粒
lì HSK7

grain

粒 lì
[for small round things] measure word
Used for grain-like or small round objects such as seeds, pearls, pills, or bullets; in Taiwan, also used for larger round objects like watermelons.

每一粒种子里面都包含着它将成为什么的可能性。

měi yī lì zhǒng​zi lǐ​miàn dōu bāo​hán zhe tā jiāng chéng​wéi shén​me de kě​néng​xìng.

Each seed holds within it the potential of what it will become.

每一粒沙子都是不同的。

měi yī lì shā​zi dōu shì bù​tóng de.

Each grain of sand is different.

grain noun
(bound form) grain; granule; pellet; a small particle of something, such as salt or sand

乍一看，它们长得像小粒的种子。

zhà yī kàn, tā​men zhǎng​de xiàng xiǎo lì de zhǒng​zi.

At first glance, they look like little seeds.

to eat
(literary) to eat or consume grain as food

Cross-References

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,714th most common 52.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,228th most common 13.6 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.02 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
36.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+7C92

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