漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
麗: lovely, beautiful
Also: graceful, resplendent
JLPT N119 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
鹿 carries the meaning · 一 is drawn in
19 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
レイrei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 華麗かれい
- 綺麗きれいpretty; lovely; beautiful
- 流麗りゅうれいfluent; flowing; elegant
- 壮麗そうれいmagnificent; grand; splendid
- 美辞麗句びじれいくflowery words; rhetorical flourishes
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 高麗こうらいGoryeo (dynasty of Korea; 918-1392 CE)
Also read うるわしい, うららか, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A deer with antlers.
Source: Wiktionary, 麗 (rev. 92564657), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Two antlers (variants) + deer (鹿). Represents the extreme "beauty" and elegance of two majestic deer standing together—the ultimate symbol of loveliness.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 丽 · traditional, as in Japanese · lì
Japan keeps the traditional form 麗; mainland China simplifies it to 丽.
- Simplified
- 丽 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 麗 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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