隶
(bound form) a person in servitude; low-ranking subordinate; (bound form) to be subordinate to; (bound form) clerical script (the style of characters intermediate between ancient seal and modern regular characters)
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,904 U+96B6
How 隶 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A hand 彐 threshing rice
components: 彐 氺
How to remember it
bondservant · Heisig RSH #2226
snowflake + rake
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 隶 as their sound component
These characters all use 隶 (lì) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隶 sound component | lì | subservient; servant |
| 逮 | dǎi | to catch, to seize; to arrive, to reach |
| 棣 | dì | cherry; Kerria japonica |
| 埭 | dài | dam; a ramp leading up to a canal |
Words containing 隶
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奴隶制度 | nú lì zhì dù | slavery |
| 奴隶社会 | nú lì shè huì | slave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社會|封建社会 in Marxist theory) |
| 性奴隶 | xìng nú lì | sex slave |
| 隶体 | lì tǐ | see 隸書|隶书[li4 shu1] |
| 奴隶主 | nú lì zhǔ | slave owner |
| 奴隶制 | nú lì zhì | slavery |
| 隶书 | lì shū | clerical script; official script (Chinese calligraphic style) |
| 直隶 | Zhí lì | Zhili, a province from Ming times until 1928, roughly corresponding to present-day Hebei |
| 改隶 | gǎi lì | (of an entity) to come under the administration of (a different authority) |
| 隶属 | lì shǔ | to be subordinate to; to be under the jurisdiction of |
| 奴隶 | nú lì | slave |
| 隶圉 | lì yǔ | servants; underlings |