李 (lǐ)
Plum; surname Li.
How 李 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 李
- Simplified
- 李 (unchanged)
Common words using 李
- 行李 xíngli
- luggage; CL:件[jian4]
- 李子 lǐzi
- plum; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 李斯 lǐsī
- Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and Prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC
- 行李架 xínglijià
- luggage rack
- 行李箱 xínglixiāng
- suitcase
- 張三李四 zhāngsānlǐsì
- Zhang and Li (idiom); Zhang with tight trousers and Li with wide hat; Tom, Dick and Harry
- 張冠李戴 zhāngguānlǐdài
- lit. to put Zhang's hat on Li's head; to attribute sth to the wrong person (idiom); to confuse one thing with another
- 投桃報李 tóutáobàolǐ
- toss a peach, get back a plum (idiom); to return a favor; to exchange gifts; Scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.
- 李代桃僵 lǐdàitáojiāng
- lit. the plum tree withers in place of the peach tree; to substitute one thing for another; to carry the can for sb
- 李俊 lǐjùn
- Li Jun, fictional character from 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Zhuan4]
- 李冰 lǐbīng
- Li Bing (c 230 BC) historical hydraulic engineer of DuJiangYan 都江堰
- 李商隱 lǐshāngyǐn
- Li Shangyin (c. 813-858), Tang poet
李 in a sentence
李先生是我們的老師。
Lǐ xiānshēng shì wǒmen de lǎoshī.
“Mr. Li is our teacher.”
How common is 李?
李 is the 472nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 74.6% of all running text.
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