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藜

lí

Character

What 藜 means

1. name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc)
2. Chenopodium album

Example sentences

• 玛丽做了羽衣甘蓝藜麦沙拉。
  Mary made a kale and quinoa salad.

Words starting with 藜

• 藜麦lí màiquinoa

Words containing 藜

• 羹藜含糗gēng lí hán qiǔnothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet…
• 蒺藜jí li(botany) caltrop; puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); barbed object
• 铁蒺藜tiě jí li(military) caltrop
• 羹藜唅糗gēng lí hān qiǔnothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet…

Characters that look like 藜

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

• 藉jiè(literary) cushion; mat; (literary) to put some padding underneath
• 瞿qústartled; Taiwan pr. jù
• 麓lùfoot of a hill
• 罄qìngto use up; to exhaust; empty
• 麋mímoose; river bank
• 餮tiè(literary) greedy; gluttonous

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
• 漓pattering (of rain); seep through