黎
Lílí HSK7

black

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Phonosemantic compound. 黍 represents the meaning and 利 represents the sound.

Components

利
利 Sound component
黍
黍 MeaningRemnant component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlej[r]ˤij (Cf. 耆 0552l gij < *[g]rij ‘old’)old
lej[r]ˤij black

說文解字

《說文》：“，履黏也。从黍，省聲。，古文利。作履黏以黍米。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)