利
Meanings
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- 1.surname Li
- 1.sharp
- 2.favorable
- 3.advantage
- 4.benefit
- 5.profit
- 6.interest
- 7.to do good to
- 8.to benefit
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Wiktionary
- 1.benefit; advantage
- 2.profit
- 3.interest
- 4.to benefit; to be beneficial to
- 5.favourable; successful
- 6.sharp; sharp-edge
- 7.knife (Classifier: 把 mn-l)
- 8.a surname
- 9.Used in transcription.
- 10.used in 利市 (“red packets”)
- 11.used in 老利 (lou⁵ lai⁶⁻²)
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 禾 (“grain”) + 刀 (“knife”) – to reap grain (禾) with a knife (刀). See also the variant 𥝢, which appears on top of the character 黎. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ri:t (“to reap, scrape, shave, cut, sever”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007); cognate to Mizo rîit (“to scrap with a hoe”), Gurung [script needed] (wriqba, “to scratch”), Burmese ရိတ် (rit, “to cut, reap, mow shave”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
這刀不鋒利。
The knife is not sharp.
工作一切順利嗎？
Is everything going OK at work?
他們祝賀我們的勝利。
They congratulated us on our victory.
今天早上我看到了利茲。
I saw Liz this morning.
這是一個輕鬆取得的勝利。
It's an easy victory.
鳳凰城是亞利桑那州的首府。
Phoenix is the capital of Arizona.
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