栗栗

Chinese

Etymology 1

		chestnut	chestnut
trad. (栗栗)		栗	栗
simp. #(栗栗)		栗	栗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìlì

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leot⁶ leot⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìlì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìlì
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴-li⁴
    • Yale: lì-lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lihlih
    • Palladius: лили (lili)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: leot⁶ leot⁶
    • Yale: leuht leuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loet⁹ loet⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêd⁶ lêd⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵt̚² lɵt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: lit lit

Rime
Character	栗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力質切
Baxter	lit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/lit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ljet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lit̚/
Li Rong	/liĕt̚/
Wang Li	/lĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]i[t]  [r]i[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*riɡ  riɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	栗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lì
Middle Chinese	‹ lit ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]i[t]/
English	chestnut tree
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	栗
Reading #	1/1
No.	7969
Phonetic component	栗
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	栗
Old Chinese	/*riɡ/

Adjective

栗栗

1. (literary, obsolete) plentiful

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 栗栗 – see 慄慄 (“fearful; terrified; with dread; shivering; trembling; shuddering”). (This term is the simplified and variant form of 慄慄).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.