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嫠

lí

Character

What 嫠 means

1. bound formwidow

Words starting with 嫠

• 嫠妇lí fù(formal) widow
• 嫠节lí jiéchastity of a widow (old usage)

Words containing 嫠

• 恤嫠xù líto give relief to widows

Sounds the same

Read lí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 离to leave; to part from; to be away from
• 璃(phonetic character used in transliteration of foreign names); Taiwan pr. lì; variant of 璃
• 厘one hundredth; centi-
• 梨pear
• 黎(literary) black; dark; many
• 犁plow
• 篱a fence
• 狸(bound form) used in the names of small mammals
• 骊black horse; jet steed; good horse
• 罹happen to; sorrow; suffer from
• 喱grain (unit of weight, approx. 0.065 grams); Taiwan pr. lǐ
• 漓pattering (of rain); seep through