隶 (隸) lì

  1. lì verb to be attached to; be subordinate to; to be affilitated with
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 附属 (CC-CEDICT '隸'; Guoyu '隸' v 1; Kroll 2015 '隸' 2, p. 265; Unihan '隸'; XHZD '隶' 1, p. 435)
  2. lì noun a servant; a slave
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As in 奴隶 slave (Guoyu '隸' n 1; Unihan '隸'; XHZD '隶' 4, p. 436)
  3. lì noun Kangxi radical 171
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
    Notes: Scribe (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7)
  4. lì noun clerical script; offiical script
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Short for 隶书; for example, in 千字文 ”Thousand Character Classic”, 鍾隸 '[calligrapher] Zhong, who used clerical script' (Guoyu '隸' n 2; Kroll 2015 '隸' 4, p. 265; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1593; XHZD '隶' 3, p. 436)
  5. lì noun a yamen messenger; a low ranking subordinate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '隸' 1, p. 265; XHZD '隶' 2, p. 436)
  6. lì noun a laborer
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '隸' 1a, p. 265)
  7. lì verb to audit; to examine carefully
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '隸' 3, p. 265)
  8. lì verb to study; to learn; to practice
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 学习 (Guoyu '隸' v 2)
  9. lì proper noun Li
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '隸' n 3)

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