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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
lì | li4
English translation
subservient; servant

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Number of strokes

17

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

bear

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

柰隶

Semantic compound

nài

Phonetic compound

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
奴隶 núlì slave奴隸
隶属 lì shǔ to be attached to隸屬
奴隶制 nú lì zhì slavery奴隸制
奴隶主 nú lì zhǔ slave owner奴隸主
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直隶 Zhí lì Ming and Qing dynasty province directly administered by Beijing, including Beijing, Tianjin, most of Hebei and Henan and part of Shandong直隸
隶书 lì shū clerical script隸書
奴隶社会 nú lì shè huì slave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社會|封建社会 fēng jiàn shè huì in Marxist theory)奴隸社會
奴隶制度 nú lì zhì dù slavery奴隸制度

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