liè

enclosure

Components

Meaning component
earth

earth

Sound component
lǜ, lüè to take, to seize

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangrod

說文解字

卑垣也。从土寽聲。

Sources

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