曆

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷

历

🇨🇳

暦

🇯🇵

calendar

HSK 10 N1

Abstract →Time

lì

レキ、リャク

こよみ

력, 역

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 厤 represents the sound.

Components

Traditional (曆)

厤 calendar (archaic)+ 日 day =

曆 calendar

厤 Phonetic component

lì calendar (archaic)

to calculate

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日 Meaning component

rì day

sun

Simplified (历)

厂 cliff (radical)+ 力 power =

历 history

厂 Simplified component

hǎn cliff (radical)

"cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27), occurring in 原, 历, 压 etc

Simplified shorthand of the traditional 厤 component.

力 Phonetic component

lì power

power, capability, influence

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Japanese (暦)

厂 cliff (radical) =

暦 calendar

厂

cliff (radical)

𣈅

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

暦

Regular

Modern

Chinese

历 / 曆 [lì]

calendar

Japanese

暦こよみ、れき同音

nounsuffix calendar; almanac (れき when a suffix)

Example Sentences

Japanese Names

暦こよみ

Koyomi female given name

暦れき

Reki female given name

CHINESE WORDS (31)

日历 [rìlì] #8,327

calendar

农历 [nónglì] #63,605

the traditional Chinese calendar

公历 [gōnglì] #65,901

Gregorian calendar

四分历 [sìfēnlì]

"quarter remainder" calendar, the first calculated Chinese calendar, dating from c. 484 BC

夏历 [xiàlì] #46,902

the traditional Chinese lunar calendar

大明历 [Dàmínglì]

the 5th century Chinese calendar established by Zu Chongzhi 祖沖之|祖冲之

年历 [niánlì] #56,723

calendar

庆历新政 [Qìnglìxīnzhèng]

failed reform of Northern Song government in 1043

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JAPANESE WORDS (84)

Japan's old (lunisolar) calendar

延暦 [えんりゃく] #64,947

Enryaku era (782.8.19-806.5.18)

新暦 [しんれき] #69,963

the solar calendar

明暦 [めいれき] #79,181

Meireki era (1655.4.13-1658.7.23)

宝暦 [ほうれき] #85,248

Hōreki era (1751.10.27-1764.6.2)

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KOREAN WORDS (3)