Read Edit View history 歷 lì experience, history Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Basic Details Gloss Iconic Gloss Original Meaning Hint Phonosemantic compound. 止 (foot) represents the meaning and 厤 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "pass through". The meaning later expanded to also include "experience" and "history". Pinyin Separate values with commas lì × Add Simplified Variants Separate values with commas 历 × Add Traditional Variants Separate values with commas Add Variant Of Components Character ◎ Hint Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 歷 Simp strokes 歷 Trad strokes Character ◎ Hint Depicts a foot Type meaning sound iconic remnant simplified deleted distinguishing unknown Old pronunciation From original meaning Glyph changed 歷 Simp strokes 歷 Trad strokes + Add component Stroke Data 歷 Stroke Data (Simp) — JSON { "source": "dong", "medians": [ [ [ 311, 747 ], [ 349, 735 ], [ 404, 735 ], [ 681, 781 ], [ 743, 780 ] ], [ [ 231, 771 ], [ 255, 752 ], [ 273, 722 ], [ 266, 563 ], [ 243, 404 ], [ 215, 301 ], [ 173, 196 ], [ 141, 134 ], [ 68, 35 ] ], [ [ 517.75, 655.25 ], [ 327, 589 ] ], [ [ 314, 495 ], [ 370, 495 ], [ 471, 528 ], [ 513, 532 ] ], [ [ 402, 594 ], [ 426, 585 ], [ 436, 571 ], [ 427, 339 ], [ 431, 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