戾

See also: 戻

戾 U+623E, 戾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-623E ← 戽 [U+623D] CJK Unified Ideographs 房 → [U+623F]

Translingual

Han character

戾 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸戈大 (HSIK) or 戈尸戈大 (ISIK), four-corner 3023₄, composition ⿸戶犬 (HTKJV) or ⿸户犬(G))

Derived characters

• 捩, 唳, 淚, 悷, 棙, 睙, 蜧, 綟, 錑 (𫄫), 𩸭

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 415, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11712
• Dae Jaweon: page 759, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2258, character 6
• Unihan data for U+623E

Chinese

trad.		戾
simp. #		戾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戾
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (戾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
錑	*ruːds
戻	*tʰɯːds
戾	*rɯːds, *rɯːd
綟	*rɯːds, *rɯːd
唳	*rɯːds, *rɯːd
蜧	*rɯːds
捩	*rɯːds, *rɯːd
悷	*rɯːds
淚	*ruds

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): a dog 犬 bending to enter through a door 戶 – to bend over. Extended to mean crooked, deviant, contrary.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lì (li⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁶ / lai⁶ / lit⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): lâ̤
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): le⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lē

  (Teochew, Peng'im): li⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lì
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴
    • Yale: lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
    • Palladius: ли (li)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: leoi⁶ / lai⁶ / lit⁶
    • Yale: leuih / laih / liht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁶ / lai⁶ / lit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁶ / lei⁶ / lid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²²/, /lɐi̯²²/, /liːt̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lâ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃ɑ²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: le⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: lā̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /le¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: le⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /le²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lē
    • Tâi-lô: lē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: le
    • IPA (Xiamen): /le²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /le⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /le²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /le³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /le³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: li⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: lejH, let

Rime
Character	戾	戾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	郎計切	練結切
Baxter	lejH	let
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leiH/	/let̚/
Pan Wuyun	/leiH/	/let̚/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛiH/	/lɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛjH/	/lɛt̚/
Li Rong	/leiH/	/let̚/
Wang Li	/lieiH/	/liet̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lieiH/	/liet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì	liè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lai6	lit6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤe[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*rɯːds/, /*rɯːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	戾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lì
Middle Chinese	‹ lejH ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁe[t]-s/
English	transgress
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	戾	戾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7942	7950
Phonetic component	戾	戾
Rime group	隊	物
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	麗	𥸸
Old Chinese	/*rɯːds/	/*rɯːd/

Definitions

戾

1. perverse, recalcitrant, rebellious
2. 6th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "contrariety" (𝌋)

Compounds

• 乖戾 (guāilì)
• 佛戾
• 剌戾
• 剛戾 / 刚戾
• 剛戾自用 / 刚戾自用
• 反戾天常
• 咎戾
• 寥戾
• 忿戾
• 悍戾
• 愎戾
• 戾天 (lìtiān)
• 戾止
• 戾氣 / 戾气 (lìqi)
• 攫戾執猛 / 攫戾执猛
• 暴戾 (bàolì)
• 暴戾之氣 / 暴戾之气
• 暴戾恣睢
• 災戾 / 灾戾
• 狠戾
• 狼戾 (lánglì)
• 猛戾
• 獲戾 / 获戾
• 粒米狼戾
• 罪戾 (zuìlì)
• 詭戾 / 诡戾
• 貪戾 / 贪戾 (tānlì)
• 颯戾 / 飒戾
• 飂戾 / 𮨵戾
• 饕戾
• 鳶飛戾天 / 鸢飞戾天

References

• “戾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “戾”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “戾”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 136.

Japanese

Shinjitai	戻
Kyūjitai	戾

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 戾

戾

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 戻)

1. Kyūjitai spelling of 戻

Readings

• Go-on: らい (rai)
• Kan-on: れい (rei)
• Kun: もどる (modoru, 戾る)、もどす (modosu, 戾す)、もとる (motoru, 戾る)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
戾
れい Hyōgai
kan'on

For pronunciation and definitions of 戾 – see the following entry.

【戻】S [kanji] jōyō kanji [kanji] This term needs a translation to English. [kanji] jōyō kanji Kanji reading: らい, れい, もどす, もどる, のぶ, ふさ

(This term, 戾, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

戾 • (ryeo>yeo, ryeol>yeol) (hangeul 려>여, 렬>열, revised ryeo>yeo, ryeol>yeol, McCune–Reischauer ryŏ>yŏ, ryŏl>yŏl, Yale lye>ye, lyel>yel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戾: Hán Nôm readings: lệ

liệt (xoay lại, turn back)

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