藜 — Chinese character
藜
lí
pigweed; Chenopodium album
- Pinyin
- lí
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 艹 黎
- Formation
- pictophonetic — grass; meaning component 艹; sound component 黎
- Japanese
- 藜 as a kanji
Common words with 藜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蒺藜 | jí li | (botany) caltrop; puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); barbed object |
| 铁蒺藜 (鐵蒺藜) | tiě jí li | (military) caltrop |
| 羹藜含糗 | gēng lí hán qiǔ | nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet; à la guerre comme à la guerre |
| 羹藜唅糗 | gēng lí hān qiǔ | nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet; à la guerre comme à la guerre |
| 藜麦 (藜麥) | lí mài | quinoa |
English words written with 藜
藜 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: 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.