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篱

lí

Character Traditional 籬

What 篱 means

1. a fence

Example sentences

• 猫从树篱穿过去。
  Māo cóng shùlí chuānguò qù.
  The cat got through the hedge.
• 我把篱笆漆成了绿色。
  I painted the fence green.
• 这栋房子的周围有篱笆。
  Zhè dòng fángzi de zhōuwéi yǒu líba.
  There is a fence around the house.
• 我父亲在花园边上装了篱笆。
  Wǒ fùqīn zài huāyuán biān shàngzhuāng le líba.
  My father put a fence around the garden.
• 我家和邻居家以院子之间的篱笆为分界线。
  Wǒ jiā hé línjū jiā yǐ yuànzi zhījiān de líba wèi fēnjièxiàn.
  There is a fence marking the boundary between our yard and the neighbor's.
• 我家院子和邻居家院子之间有一道篱笆做为分界线。.
  Wǒ jiā yuànzi hé línjū jiā yuànzi zhījiān yǒu yīdào líba zuòwéi fēnjièxiàn..
  There is a fence marking the boundary between our yard and the neighbor's.

Words starting with 篱

• 篱笆lí bafence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings)
• 篱垣lí yuánfence; hedge

Words containing 篱

• 寄人篱下jì rén lí xiàto lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
• 围篱wéi lífence; paling
• 栅篱zhà líhedge; fence
• 树篱shù líhedge
• 箔篱bó lí(dialect) partition or screen made of plaited bamboo (or rushes, grain stalks etc)…
• 竹篱笆zhú lí bāfence
• 笆篱子bā lí zi(dialect) prison
• 傍人篱壁bàng rén lí bìto depend on others
• 针线箔篱zhēn xiàn bó lí(dialect) wicker sewing basket
• 藩篱fān líhedge; fence; (fig.) barrier
• 羊触藩篱yáng chù fān lílit. billy goat's horns caught in the fence (idiom from Book of Changes 易经)…
• 靴篱莺xuē lí yīng(bird species of China) booted warbler (Iduna caligata)
• 草绿篱莺cǎo lǜ lí yīng(bird species of China) eastern olivaceous warbler (Iduna pallida)
• 赛氏篱莺Sài shì lí yīng(bird species of China) Sykes's warbler (Iduna rama)
• 樊篱fán lí(lit.) fence; hedge; (fig.) restriction
• 笊篱zhào listrainer (made of bamboo, wicker, or wire)

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
• 笠lìbamboo rain hat
• 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 篱

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

• 震zhènto shake; to vibrate; to jolt
• 翼yìwing; area surrounding the bullseye of a target; to assist
• 襄xiāng(literary) to assist
• 篝gōubamboo frame for drying clothes; bamboo cage
• 蕙huìCoumarouna odorata
• 蕈xùnmold; mushroom

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
• 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