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犁

lí

Character

What 犁 means

1. plow

Words starting with 犁

• 犁地lí dìto plow
• 犁沟lí gōufurrow
• 犁头lí tóuplowshare; colter; (dialect) plow
• 犁骨lí gǔvomer bone (in the nose, dividing the nostrils)
• 犁铧lí huáplowshare
• 犁靬Lí jiānHan dynasty name for countries in far West; may refer to Silk Road states or Alexandria…

Words containing 犁

• 孙犁Sūn LíSun Li (1913-2002), novelist
• 扶犁fú líto put one's hand to the plow
• 步犁bù líwalking plow
• 泥犁ní lí(Buddhism) Naraka
• 火犁huǒ límechanical plow
• 爬犁pá lísledge
• 耕犁gēng líplow
• 开犁kāi líto start plowing; to plow the first furrow
• 雪犁xuě lísnowplow; skibob
• 伊犁河Yī lí HéIli River in central Asia
• 尉犁县Yù lí XiànYuli, a county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州
• 伊犁盆地Yī lí pén dìthe Yili basin around Urumqi in Xinjiang
• 铸剑为犁zhù jiàn wéi lí(idiom) to beat swords into plowshares; to turn from war to peace
• 雪犁运动xuě lí yùn dòng(sports) skibobbing
• 中俄伊犁条约Zhōng É Yī lí Tiáo yuēTreaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing…
• 改订伊犁条约Gǎi dìng Yī lí Tiáo yuēTreaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to…
• 锄犁chú líplow
• 多铧犁duō huá límultishare or multifurrow plow
• 伊犁哈萨克自治州Yī lí Hā sà kè Zì zhì zhōuIli Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 新疆维吾尔自治区
• 伊犁Yī lísee 伊犁哈萨克自治州; see 伊犁河; see 伊犁盆地
• 尉犁Yù lísee 尉犁县
• 伊犁州Yī lí Zhōusee 伊犁哈萨克自治州
• 扒犁pá lívariant of 爬犁

Characters built on 利

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

• 莉lìused in 茉莉; used in the transliteration of female names
• 梨lípear
• 俐lìused in 伶俐
• 猁lìused in 猞猁
• 痢lìdysentery
• 蜊líclam
• 唎lì(final particle); sound; noise
• 悧lìused in 怜悧

Characters that look like 犁

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

• 掌zhǎngpalm of the hand; sole of the foot; paw
• 琴qínguqin 古琴; musical instrument in general
• 辈bèilifetime; generation; group of people
• 笨bènstupid; foolish; silly
• 孳zīindustrious; produce; bear
• 掣chèto pull; to draw; to pull back

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