粒

lì

HSK 7freq #4781

Meanings

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lì

1.grain; granule; pellet; particle
2.classifier for small round objects (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc)
3.(Tw) classifier for larger round objects (watermelon etc)

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Wiktionary

1.grain
2.small particle
3.Classifier for small, round objects: granule, grain, particle, piece ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
4.Classifier for any round, solid objects.
5.with hard grains and not mushy (of rice)
6.Classifier for hours.
7.Classifier for offspring.
8.Classifier for pips (insignia).
9.high-ranking police officer; police officer with pips
10.Classifier for money: ten thousand yuan, dollars, etc.
11.pox (in common)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *rɯb): semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 立 (OC *rɯb).

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Stroke order

Components

粒米立

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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Synonyms

顆枚個隻粒兒敉尾痘

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Related words

颗粒 kernel 麦粒 grain of wheat 米粒 grain of rice 暹粒 Siem Reap, Cambodia 谷粒 grain (of cereal)饭粒 grain of cooked rice 微粒 speck 坋粒 silt particle 胶粒 colloid 端粒 telomere, a protective DNA cap on a chromosome 果粒 fruit pieces; fruit chunks 质粒 plasmid