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漓

lí

Character

What 漓 means

1. pattering (of rain)
2. seep through

Other readings

漓 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• líto seep through
• Líname of a river

Example sentences

• 伊隆马斯克将「凡是与你作对的人都是恋童癖」这一保守派惯用的抹黑手法发挥得淋漓尽致。
  Elon Musk embodies the conservative propaganda tactic of calling everyone who crosses you a pedophile.

Words starting with 漓

• 漓江Lí jiāngRiver Li, Guangxi

Words containing 漓

• 淋漓尽致lín lí jìn zhìlit. extreme saturation (idiom); fig. vividly and thoroughly; in great detail
• 淋漓lín lídripping wet; pouring; saturated
• 大汗淋漓dà hàn lín lídripping with sweat
• 酣畅淋漓hān chàng lín líto one's heart's content (idiom)
• 痛快淋漓tòng kuài lín líjoyous; hearty; spirited
• 鲜血淋漓xiān xuè lín lí(idiom) drenched with blood; dripping with blood

Characters built on 离

These share the phonetic component 离 (lí), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 璃lí(phonetic character used in transliteration of foreign names); Taiwan pr. lì; variant of 璃
• 篱lía fence
• 魑chīused in 魑魅
• 螭chīdragon with horns not yet grown (in myth or heraldry); variant of 魑
• 蓠líred algae; Gracilaria, several species, some edible; Japanese ogonori
• 褵líbride's veil or kerchief
• 缡líbridal veil or kerchief

Characters that look like 漓

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
• 漏lòuto leak; to divulge; to leave out by mistake
• 滴dīto drip; to let drip; to apply (eye drops etc); (bound form) a drop (of liquid)
• 湍tuānto rush (of water)
• 遁dùnto evade; to flee; to escape
• 滇Diānshort name for Yunnan 云南

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
• 藜name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album