Li
A surname from Chinese
Proper noun
- A surname from Chinese
Origin
Transcription of 黎 (Lí)
Forms
Proper noun Entry 2
- A surname from Chinese
Origin
Transcription of 理 (Lǐ)
Proper noun Entry 3
- 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
- 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)
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Derived
Proper noun Entry 5
- 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
- A surname from Korean, a variant of Lee and Rhee
Origin
From Korean 이(李) (I) and 리(李) (Ri).
Forms
Proper noun Entry 7
- A county of Changde, Hunan, China.
Origin
Transcription of 澧 (Lǐ)