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狸

lí

Character

What 狸 means

1. bound formused in the names of small mammals

Other readings

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

• lívariant of {狸|lí}

Example sentences

• 穷鼠啮狸。
  Qióng shǔ niè lí.
  A cornered rat will bite a cat.
• 狐狸吃母鸡。
  Húli chī mǔjī.
  Foxes eat hens.
• 狐狸很可爱！
  Foxes are so adorable!
• 猎人射杀了狐狸。
  Lièrén shèshā le húli.
  The hunter shot the fox dead.
• 狐狸是野生动物。
  A fox is a wild animal.
• 这家伙像个狐狸。
  This guy looks like a fox.

Words starting with 狸

• 狸子lí zileopard cat
• 狸猫lí māoleopard cat; (literary) various small wild mammals (including raccoon dog, civet, wildcat)
• 狸花猫lí huā māoDragon Li (modern Chinese cat breed)

Words containing 狸

• 狐狸hú lifox; (fig.) sly or crafty person
• 狐狸精hú li jīngfox-spirit; vixen; witch
• 老狐狸lǎo hú li(fig.) old fox; a wily, shrewd person
• 河狸hé líbeaver
• 沼狸zhǎo lí(zoology) coypu; nutria
• 海狸hǎi líbeaver
• 熊狸xióng líbinturong; bearcat
• 果子狸guǒ zi límasked palm civet (Paguma larvata)
• 海狸鼠hǎi lí shǔ(zoology) coypu; nutria
• 狐狸座Hú li zuò(astronomy) Vulpecula
• 花面狸huā miàn límasked palm civet (Paguma larvata)
• 狐狸尾巴hú li wěi balit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions; to reveal one's evil nature…
• 穷鼠啮狸qióng shǔ niè lía desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on

Characters built on 里

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

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 厘líone hundredth; centi-
• 哩lǐmile
• 锂lǐlithium (chemistry)
• 鲤lǐcarp
• 俚lǐrustic; vulgar; unrefined
• 娌lǐused in 妯娌

Characters that look like 狸

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

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 根gēnroot; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
• 狠hěnruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; resolute; to harden (one's heart)
• 俚lǐrustic; vulgar; unrefined
• 猕míused in 猕猴
• 胭yānrouge

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
• 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