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李

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See also: 季
李 U+674E, 李
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-674E
← 杍
[U+674D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 杏 →
[U+674F]
李 U+F9E1, 李
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9E1
← 易
[U+F9E0] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 梨 →
[U+F9E2]

Translingual

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Stroke order
7 strokes

Han character

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李 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, Cangjie input 木弓木 (DND), four-corner 40407, composition ⿱木子)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 511, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14459
  • Dae Jaweon: page 895, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1162, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+674E

Chinese

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trad. 李
simp. # 李
alternative forms 杍

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 李
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (子) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
孜 *ʔslɯ
仔 *ʔslɯ, *ʔslɯʔ
孖 *ʔslɯ, *zlɯs
子 *ʔslɯʔ
虸 *ʔslɯʔ
耔 *ʔslɯʔ
秄 *ʔslɯʔ
杍 *ʔslɯʔ
籽 *ʔslɯʔ
字 *zlɯs
茡 *zlɯs
芓 *zlɯs
牸 *zlɯs
李 *rɯʔ

Oracle bone script: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rɯʔ): phonetic 來 (OC *m·rɯːɡ, “wheat”) + semantic 子. The phonetic part 來 became gradually corrupted to yield 木 (“tree”).

Shuowen erroneously remarks that this is a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rɯʔ): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 子 (OC *ʔslɯʔ).

Pronunciation

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