(lì) - beautiful, pretty (bound) in Mandarin
lìTraditional: 丽
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Translation
beautiful, pretty (bound)
Word origin
A character whose simplified form derives from a pictograph of a pair of matched ornaments or a deer's antlers, giving the sense paired and elegant, hence beautiful.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- a pictograph of a pair of matched, elegant forms
Stroke order
丽
Examples
。
She is very beautiful.
座。
This is a beautiful house.
a beautiful young woman
。
Her smile is extremely beautiful.
草风。
The grassland scenery is truly lovely.
丽 (lì) is a bound morpheme meaning beautiful, the second half of 美丽 (měilì) and 华丽 (huálì, gorgeous).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 丽.
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