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笠

lì

Character

What 笠 means

1. bamboo rain hat

Example sentences

• 不要把你的灯藏在斗笠下。
  Bù yào bǎ nǐ de dēng cáng zài dǒulì xià.
  Hide not your light under a bushel.

Words containing 笠

• 斗笠dǒu lìconical bamboo hat
• 床笠chuáng lìfitted bed sheet

Characters built on 竹

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

• 第dì(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六…
• 籍jí(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 笛díflute
• 篱lía fence
• 笞chīto whip with bamboo strips
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
• 笈jítrunks (for books)
• 箕jīwinnow basket

Characters that look like 笠

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

• 笼lóngenclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket
• 冤yuāninjustice; grievance; wrong
• 笆bāan article made of bamboo strips; fence
• 笙shēngsheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
• 翌yìbright; tomorrow
• 筐kuāngbasket

Sounds the same

Read lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 力power; force; strength
• 历calendar
• 利sharp; favorable; advantage
• 例example; precedent; rule
• 励to encourage; to urge
• 丽beautiful
• 厉strict; severe
• 立to stand; to set up; to establish
• 粒grain; granule; pellet; particle; classifier for small round objects…
• 隶(bound form) a person in servitude; low-ranking subordinate…
• 俐used in 伶俐
• 莉used in 茉莉; used in the transliteration of female names