Character: 栗
Modern (Beijing) reading: lì
Preclassic Old Chinese: rhit
Classic Old Chinese: rhit
Western Han Chinese: rhjǝt
Eastern Han Chinese: rhjǝt
Early Postclassic Chinese: lhjit
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lhjit
Late Postclassic Chinese: lhjit
Middle Chinese: lit
English meaning : chestnut (Castanea mollissima)
Comments: For *rh- cf. Xiamen lik7, Fuzhou lek7. During LZ used for a homonymous *r(h)it 'solid, compact, dense'.
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0403 a-c
Shijing occurrences: 50.1_
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