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鹂

lí

Character Traditional 鸝

What 鹂 means

1. Chinese oriole

Words containing 鹂

• 黄鹂huáng líyellow oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
• 朱鹂zhū lí(bird species of China) maroon oriole (Oriolus traillii)
• 金黄鹂jīn huáng lí(bird species of China) Eurasian golden oriole (Oriolus oriolus)
• 鹊色鹂què sè lí(bird species of China) silver oriole (Oriolus mellianus)
• 细嘴黄鹂xì zuǐ huáng lí(bird species of China) slender-billed oriole (Oriolus tenuirostris)
• 黑枕黄鹂hēi zhěn huáng lí(bird species of China) black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
• 黑头黄鹂hēi tóu huáng lí(bird species of China) black-hooded oriole (Oriolus xanthornus)
• 印度金黄鹂Yìn dù jīn huáng lí(bird species of China) Indian golden oriole (Oriolus kundoo)

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
• 骊líblack horse; jet steed; good horse
• 逦lǐwinding
• 郦Lìsurname Li; ancient place name
• 鲡líused in 鳗鲡

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