漢字Kanji
隷: slave, servant
Also: prisoner, criminal, follower
JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 士man(form)
- 示altar(form)
- 隶(meaning)
隶 carries the meaning · 士 and 示 are drawn in
16 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
レイrei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 奴隷どれいslave; servant
- 隷書れいしょclerical script (ancient, highly angular…
- 隷れいclerical script (ancient, highly angular…
Also read したがう, しもべ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
隶
Also built on 隶
In ChineseSimplified 隶 · traditional 隸 · lì
Three different forms: Japanese 隷, simplified 隶, traditional 隸.
- Simplified
- 隶 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 隸 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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