藜
lí

Chenopodium album

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

黎
黎 Sound component
lí black

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangriːl
Unicodelei

說文解字

艸也。从艸黎聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica