狸 — Chinese character
狸
lí
fox
- Pinyin
- lí
- Radical
- 94 ⽝ (Dog)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 犭 里
- Formation
- pictophonetic — dog; meaning component 犭; sound component 里
- Japanese
- 狸 as a kanji
Common words with 狸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狐狸 | hú li | fox; (fig.) sly or crafty person |
| 狐狸精 | hú li jīng | fox-spirit; vixen |
| 狸猫 (狸貓) | lí māo | leopard cat; (literary) various small wild mammals (including raccoon dog, civet, wildcat) |
| 海狸 | hǎi lí | beaver |
| 狸子 | lí zi | leopard cat |
| 老狐狸 | lǎo hú li | (fig.) old fox; a wily, shrewd person |
| 河狸 | hé lí | beaver |
| 狐狸尾巴 | hú li wěi ba | lit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions; to reveal one's evil nature |
| 果子狸 | guǒ zi lí | masked palm civet (Paguma larvata) |
| 海狸鼠 | hǎi lí shǔ | (zoology) coypu; nutria |
| 沼狸 | zhǎo lí | (zoology) coypu; nutria |
| 熊狸 | xióng lí | binturong; bearcat |
English words written with 狸
狸 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 3
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.