藜

藜 U+85DC, 藜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85DC ← 藛 [U+85DB] CJK Unified Ideographs 藝 → [U+85DD]

Translingual

Han character

藜 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹竹水 (THHE), four-corner 4413₂, composition ⿱艹黎)

1. fat hen (Chenopodium album)

Derived characters

• 𧅏

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1065, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32326
• Dae Jaweon: page 1530, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3320, character 4
• Unihan data for U+85DC

Chinese

trad.		藜
simp. #		藜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (利) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
犁	*riːl, *ril
黎	*riːl
莉	*riːl, *r'il, *r'i
黧	*riːl
鯬	*riːl, *ril
筣	*riːl, *ri
蔾	*riːl, *ril
藜	*riːl
邌	*riːl
瓈	*riːl
鵹	*rel
棃	*ril
梨	*ril
蟍	*ril
蜊	*ril
鑗	*ril
利	*rids
痢	*rids
浰	*riːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lí (li²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lai⁴ / lei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lí
    • Wade–Giles: li²
    • Yale: lí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
    • Palladius: ли (li)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lai⁴ / lei⁴
    • Yale: làih / lèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lai⁴ / lei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lei⁴ / léi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯²¹/, /lei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lej

Rime
Character	藜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	郎奚切
Baxter	lej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lei/
Pan Wuyun	/lei/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛj/
Li Rong	/lei/
Wang Li	/liei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/liei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lai4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*riːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	藜
Reading #	1/1
No.	7886
Phonetic component	利
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	黎
Old Chinese	/*riːl/

Definitions

藜

1. goosefoot
2. a surname, Li

Compounds

• 杖藜
• 蒸藜
• 蒸藜出妻
• 燃藜
• 羹藜唅糗
• 花藜胡哨 (huālihúshào)
• 蒺藜 (jílí)
• 藜床
• 藜暴
• 藜杖 (lízhàng)
• 藜羹
• 藜蕨
• 藜蘆 / 藜芦
• 藜藿 (líhuò)
• 藜藿不採 / 藜藿不采
• 配藜
• 鐵蒺藜 / 铁蒺藜

References

• “藜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

藜

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Compounds

• 白藜(しろざ) (shiroza, “white goosefoot (Chenopodium album)”)

Readings

• On (unclassified): れい (rei)、らい (rai)
• Kun: あかざ (akaza)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
藜
あかざ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

The first part /aka/ means 赤(あか) (aka, “red”), named for it's surface of young leaves covered with magenta coloured powdery hair. Meaning of the later part /za/ is unascertained. Compare 白藜(しろざ) (shiroza, “Chenopodium album”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) あかざ [àkázá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [a̠ka̠za̠]

Noun

藜(あかざ) or 藜(アカザ) • (akaza) 

1. Chenopodium album var. centrorubrum; a red variety of white goosefoot

Korean

Hanja

藜 (eumhun 명아주 려 (myeong'aju ryeo), word-initial (South Korea) 명아주 여 (myeong'aju yeo))

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Vietnamese

Han character

藜: Hán Nôm readings: lê

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