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骊

lí

Character Traditional 驪

What 骊 means

1. black horse
2. jet steed
3. good horse
4. legendary black dragon

Words starting with 骊

• 骊山Lí shānMt Li near Xi'an with the tomb of the First Emperor
• 骊姬之乱Lí Jī zhī LuànLi Ji Rebellion in 657-651 BC, where concubine Li Ji tried to throne her son but was…
• 骊黄牝牡lí huáng pìn mǔa black stallion or possibly a yellow mare (idiom); don't judge by outward appearance

Words containing 骊

• 句骊河Jù lí Hépre-Han name of Liao River 辽河
• 探骊得珠tàn lí dé zhūto pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi)…
• 牝牡骊黄pìn mǔ lí huánga black stallion or possibly a yellow mare (idiom); don't judge by outward appearance

Characters built on 丽

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

• 俪lì(bound form) paired; coupled; (bound form) husband and wife
• 鹂líChinese oriole
• 逦lǐwinding
• 郦Lìsurname Li; ancient place name
• 鲡líused in 鳗鲡

Characters that look like 骊

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

• 辅fǔto assist; to complement; auxiliary
• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem
• 栅zhàfence; also pr. shān
• 缀zhuìto sew; to stitch together; to combine
• 骇hàito astonish; to startle; to hack (computing, loanword)
• 掴guāito slap; also pr. guó

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
• 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