Li

A surname from Chinese

Proper noun

  1. A surname from Chinese

Origin

Transcription of 黎 (Lí)

Forms

Lai Le

Proper noun Entry 2

  1. A surname from Chinese

Origin

Transcription of 理 (Lǐ)

Proper noun Entry 3

  1. A county of Longnan, Gansu, China.
    • The West Hanshui River flows through the flatland of Qishan Township east of Lixian County, Gansu Province.[…] Zhuge launched his first northern expedition. He arrived at Qishan Mountain in Lixian County, where he set...

Origin

From Mandarin 禮 /礼 (Lǐ).

Proper noun Entry 4

  1. A surname from Chinese
    • Under the post, Li shared screenshots of private messages he received from followers who said they were interrogated by police. - 2024 March 18, Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, “A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now...

Origin

Transcription of 李 (Lǐ)

Forms

Lee

Derived

Li-Fraumeni syndrome

Proper noun Entry 5

  1. A river in Guangxi, China.
    • After breakfast the next day, Ho Li-chih came to invite Yang Shu-tien and me to the Li River for a boat trip to another county, Yang-shuo. - 1977, Yee Chiang, “Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo”, in China Revisited, New York: W....
    • Cormorant fishing on the Li River near Kweilin. With increasingly serious water pollution, fishing with cormorants is becoming a rare sight in China. - 1985, Steven W. Mosher, Journey To The Forbidden China, Collier...
    • Before going home, we flew to Guilin for a meeting with environmentalists concerned about the destruction of forests and the loss of unique wildlife, and a leisurely boat trip down the Li River, which flows through a...

Origin

Transcription of 漓 (Lí)

Proper noun Entry 6

  1. A surname from Korean, a variant of Lee and Rhee

Origin

From Korean 이(李) (I) and 리(李) (Ri).

Forms

Lee Rhee Ri I Yi Rey Rhie

Proper noun Entry 7

  1. A county of Changde, Hunan, China.

Origin

Transcription of 澧 (Lǐ)