Chinese symbol for “cracking”

呖

lì

Traditional: 嚦

sound of splitting; cracking

The closest CC-CEDICT match for cracking is 呖 (lì), defined as: sound of splitting; cracking.

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Characters and stroke order

呖 lì

the sound of something cracking or splitting

radical 30 ⼝ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

嚦 lì

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.