Character: 歷
Modern (Beijing) reading: lì
Preclassic Old Chinese: rhēk
Classic Old Chinese: rhēk
Western Han Chinese: rhēk
Eastern Han Chinese: rhiēk
Early Postclassic Chinese: lhiēk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lhiēk
Late Postclassic Chinese: lhiēk
Middle Chinese: liek
English meaning : to go one after the other; to add up, count, calculate; a series of, point by point, in due course, calendrical, numerous
Russian meaning[s]: 1) проходить, миновать; 2) испытать, пережить, пройти через...; 3) календарь, вм. 曆; 4) полностью; повсюду; 5) перейти
Comments: The word was later used in the meaning 'calendar' (sequence of days). Regular Sino-Viet. is lịch. For *rh cf. Jianou li7.
Radical: 77
Four-angle index: 478
Karlgren code: 0858 e-g
Vietnamese reading: lách
