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Li
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Appendix:Variations of "li"
Translingual
Etymology
mul NL.:lithium.
Symbol
mul symbol
mul Q568 lithium
mul Alkali metals
English
Pronunciation
lēcf. Lihsien 1053 2 (Mandarin-derived terms)
Etymology 1
Transcription of 李 Lǐ
Alternative forms
Chinese name en Lee
Proper noun
en Chinese
en Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now Chinese police are coming for his social media followers w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/china/china-teacher-li-followers-police-questioning-intl-hnk/index.html 2024-03-18 Under the post, Li shared screenshots of private messages he received from followers who said they were interrogated by police. https://web.archive.org/web/20251208144130/https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/china/china-teacher-li-followers-police-questioning-intl-hnk/index.html 8 December 2025
Derived terms
en Li-Fraumeni syndrome
Translations
Li: the Chinese surname (李)
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 李 lei5
Mandarin: cmn 李 Lǐ
Japanese: ja 李 り, Ri
Korean: South Korea ko ^이(李), North Korea, in South Korea after a vowel ko ^리(李)
Manchu: mnc ᠯᡳᡳ
Russian: ru Ли
Vietnamese: vi Lý (vi 李)
Zhuang: za Lij
Etymology 2
Transcription of 黎 Lí
Alternative forms
en Lai via Cantonese
en Le via Vietnamese
Proper noun
en Chinese
Translations
Li: the Chinese surname (黎)
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 黎 lai4
Mandarin: cmn 黎 Lí
Etymology 3
Transcription of 理 Lǐ
Proper noun
en Chinese
Translations
Li: the Chinese surname (理)
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 理 lei5
Mandarin: cmn 理 Lǐ
Etymology 4
Li County, Gansu
From en cmn ^禮.
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Longnan p/Gansu c/China.
en 1995 October Qishan Fort: Zhuge's Commanding Camp China Tourism https://archive.org/details/china_tourism-183/ H.K. China Tourism Press 183 1025-577X 11274172 56 https://archive.org/details/china_tourism-183/page/56/ 1 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 up his headquarters on the shore of the West Hanshui River. on
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 禮 Lǐ
Further reading
en 1998 Li Xian Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1728 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1728/ 2
Etymology 5
Li River
Li River
Transcription of 漓 Lí
Proper noun
en river p/Guangxi c/China.
en 1977 Yee Chiang Kuei-lin and Yang-shuo China Revisited https://archive.org/details/chinarevisitedaf00chia/ w:W. W. Norton & Company New York 0-393-08791-3 77-22587 473570033 153 https://archive.org/details/chinarevisitedaf00chia/page/153/ 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.
en 1985 w:Steven W. Mosher Journey To The Forbidden China https://archive.org/details/journeytoforbidd00stev/ w:Collier Macmillan 0-02-921710-5 85-2610 1073326498 54f https://archive.org/details/journeytoforbidd00stev/page/n73/ Cormorant fishing on the Li River near Kweilin. With increasingly serious water pollution, fishing with cormorants is becoming a rare sight in China.
en https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/ 2005 w:Bill Clinton My Life (Clinton autobiography) My Life II New York w:Vintage Books 1-4000-9673-1 60594427 436–437 https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/page/436/ 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 stunning landscape marked by large limestone formations that looked as if they had burst up through the landscape of the gentle countryside.
en 2011 Andrew Forbes China https://archive.org/details/china0000forb/ APA Publications 9789812689047 701111855 26008349M 16 https://archive.org/details/china0000forb/page/16/ Days 3-5: Guilin and Yangshuo.Marvel at the extraordinary scenery lining the banks of the serene Li River.
en 27 April 2021 Echo Xie Xi Jinping laments stone quarrying as he mines green theme in Guangxi https://web.archive.org/web/20210427002415/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3131170/xi-jinping-laments-stone-quarrying-he-mines-green-theme-guangxi 27 April 2021 w:South China Morning Post China / Politics In Guilin, the second-largest city in Guangxi, Xi took a boat to inspect the ecological condition of the Li River, a popular tourist destination. The river stretches more than 400km (250 miles) through karst hills and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
en
Translations
river
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 漓 Lí
Etymology 6
Transcription of ^澧
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Changde p/Hunan c/China.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn ^澧
Etymology 7
From en ko ^이(李) and ko ^리(李).
Alternative forms
en Lee, en Rhee, en Ri, en I, en Yi, en Rey, en Rhie
Proper noun
en Korean, a variant of Lee and Rhee
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Li is the 273rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 111,786 individuals. Li is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.8%) individuals.
References
Anagrams
en il I'l IL il-
Cebuano
Alternative forms
ceb Dy Dee Lee
Etymology
ceb cmn - 1 ^李, spelled as such under the Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Pinyin system. Also likely influenced by ceb nan-hbl - 李 Lí.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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ceb Chinese Filipino Mandarin
German
Etymology
Transcription of de zh 李 Lǐ.
Pronunciation
de /liː/
de De-Li.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
surname
de Chinese
Wenchao Li (born 1957), philosopher, author, and editor
de 2007 August 15th Juliane Wedemeyer Zwischen zwei Welten https://www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/landeshauptstadt/zwischen-zwei-welten-7523308.html Tagesspiegel PNN Homepage Vergilbte Pappkästen reihen sich darin aneinander. In ihnen liegt die Arbeit von mehr als 100 Jahren Leibniz-Forschung – die Dokumente von Wenchao Lis Vorgängern, den Leitern der Potsdamer Leibniz-Edition: „Darauf kann Deutschland stolz sein“, sagt Li. Yellowed cardboard boxes are lined up next to each other. They contain the work of more than 100 years of Leibniz research – the documents of Wenchao Li’s predecessors, the directors of the Potsdam Leibniz Edition: “Germany can be proud of this,” says Li. https://web.archive.org/web/20250222091147/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/landeshauptstadt/zwischen-zwei-welten-7523308.html 22 February 2025
Declension
surname
Indonesian
Etymology 1
id nan-hbl 李 Lí and id hak 李 Lí
Alternative forms
id Lie chiefly pre-1947 pre-1972
id Lee
Proper noun
id Chinese Indonesian Hokkien
id Chinese Indonesian Hakka
Etymology 2
id hak 呂 Lî
Proper noun
id Chinese Indonesian Hakka
Tagalog
Alternative forms
tl Dy Dee Lee
Etymology
tl cmn ^李, spelled as such under the Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Pinyin system and the Wade-Giles system. See also nan-hbl 李 Lí.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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tl Chinese Filipino Mandarin
Statistics
Li 9,014th 1,867
See also
tl Huang
tl Wu
tl Wang
tl Liu
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
Ly
Pronunciation
vi li
Proper noun
Li
vi female Chinese