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黎

lí

HSK 6 Character

What 黎 means

1. literaryblack
2. dark
3. many
4. multitude

Other readings

黎 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• LíLi ethnic group of Hainan Province; surname Li; abbr. for Lebanon {黎巴嫩|Lí bā nèn}

Example sentences

• 巴黎在哪里？
  Where is Paris?
• 她去过巴黎。
  She has been to Paris.
• 我去过巴黎。
  I have been in Paris.
• 他是巴黎人。
  He's a Parisian.
• 巴黎在下雪。
  It's snowing in Paris.
• 黎巴嫩在哪？
  Where is Lebanon?

Words starting with 黎

• 黎明lí míngdawn; daybreak
• 黎巴嫩Lí bā nènLebanon
• 黎族Lí zúLi ethnic group of Hainan
• 黎利Lí LìLe Loi, Vietnamese general and emperor who won back independence for Vietnam from China…
• 黎民lí mínthe common people; the great unwashed
• 黎明时分lí míng shí fēndaybreak; at the crack of dawn
• 黎曼Lí mànBernhard Riemann (1826–1866), German mathematician
• 黎智英Lí Zhì yīngLai Chee-ying, aka Jimmy Lai (1947–), Hong Kong media tycoon, prominent critic of the CCP…
• 黎曼几何Lí màn jǐ hé(math) Riemannian geometry
• 黎明前的黑暗lí míng qián de hēi àndarkness comes before dawn; things can only get better (idiom)
• 黎城县Lí chéng XiànLicheng, a county in Changzhi City 长治市
• 黎平县Lí píng XiànLiping, a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture 黔东南苗族侗族自治州
• 黎川县Lí chuān XiànLichuan, a county in Fuzhou City 抚州市
• 黎笋Lí SǔnLe Duan (1907-1986), Vietnamese communist politician
• 黎庶lí shùpopulace; masses; the people
• 黎城Lí chéngsee 黎城县
• 黎平Lí píngsee 黎平县
• 黎黑lí hēivariant of 黧黑
• 黎川Lí chuānsee 黎川县

Words containing 黎

• 巴黎Bā líParis, capital of France
• 苏黎世Sū lí shìZurich, Switzerland
• 巴黎圣母院Bā lí Shèng mǔ yuànNotre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
• 波多黎各Bō duō Lí gèPuerto Rico, self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States
• 重黎Chóng líChongli, another name for Zhurong 祝融
• 巴黎公社Bā lí Gōng shèParis Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic
• 巴黎大学Bā lí Dà xuéUniversity of Paris
• 的黎波里Dì lí bō lǐTripoli, capital of Libya; Tripoli, city in north Lebanon
• 哥斯大黎加Gē sī dà lí jiā(Taiwan) Costa Rica
• 哥斯达黎加Gē sī dá lí jiāCosta Rica
• 木华黎Mù huá líMuqali or Mukhali (1170-1223), military commander under Genghis Khan 成吉思汗
• 季黎诺Jì lí nuòQuirinius, governor of Syria (c. 51 BC - AD 21)
• 巴黎绿bā lí lǜParis green; copper(II) acetoarsenite Cu(C2H3O2)2·3Cu(AsO2)2
• 嘉黎县Jiā lí XiànLhari, a county in Nagqu City 那曲市
• 昌黎县Chāng lí XiànChangli, a county in Qinhuangdao City 秦皇岛市
• 阇黎shé líBuddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration); also written 阇梨
• 阿阇黎ā shé líBuddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration); also written 阿阇梨
• 烝黎zhēng lípeople; the masses
• 苏黎世联邦理工学院Sū lí shì Lián bāng Lǐ gōng Xué yuànEidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, a university
• 乐东黎族自治县Lè dōng Lí zú Zì zhì xiànLedong Lizu autonomous county, Hainan
• 白沙黎族自治县Bái shā Lí zú Zì zhì xiànBaisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan
• 陵水黎族自治县Líng shuǐ Lí zú Zì zhì xiànLingshui Lizu Autonomous County, Hainan
• 琼中黎族苗族自治县Qióng zhōng Lí zú Miáo zú Zì zhì xiànQiongzhong Li and Miao autonomous county, Hainan
• 昌江黎族自治县Chāng jiāng Lí zú Zì zhì xiànChangjiang Lizu autonomous county, Hainan

Characters that look like 黎

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

• 整zhěng(bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole…
• 察cháto examine; to inquire; to observe
• 蔡Càisurname Cai
• 寮liáohut; shack; small window
• 篓lǒubasket
• 樊fán(literary) fence

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
• 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
• 藜name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc); Chenopodium album