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lì

lichee

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 劦 represents the sound. Simplified form of 茘.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

劦 Sound component

xié, liè cooperate, combined labor

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lejH	[r]ˤep-s	herb whose roots are made into brushes
Zhengzhang		reːbs
		rebs
Unicode	lèi
	liɛ̀

艸也。似蒲而小，根可作㕞。从艸劦聲。