骊 — Chinese character
骊
lí
a pure-black horse; a pair of horses
- Pinyin
- lí
- Radical
- 187 ⾺ (Horse)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 马 丽
- Formation
- pictophonetic — horse; meaning component 马; sound component 丽
- Traditional
- 驪
Common words with 骊
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 探骊得珠 (探驪得珠) | tàn lí dé zhū | to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation); to see through to the nub |
| 牝牡骊黄 (牝牡驪黃) | pìn mǔ lí huáng | a black stallion or possibly a yellow mare (idiom); don't judge by outward appearance |
| 骊黄牝牡 (驪黃牝牡) | lí huáng pìn mǔ | a black stallion or possibly a yellow mare (idiom); don't judge by outward appearance |
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.