沥
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to drip; to strain or filter; a trickle
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 水 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 瀝
- Common rank
- #3,260
- Unicode
- U+6CA5
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Formation & memory
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Words with 沥
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沥水架 | dish rack | |
| 呕心沥血 | lit. to spit out one's heart and spill blood (idiom); to work one's heart out; blood, swea… | |
| 沥干 | to drain | |
| 沥青 | asphalt; bitumen; pitch | |
| 沥青铀矿 | pitchblende (uranium ore) | |
| 披肝沥胆 | (idiom) to be completely honest and sincere; to show wholehearted loyalty | |
| 剖肝沥胆 | see 披肝瀝膽|披肝沥胆[pi1 gan1 li4 dan3] | |
| 滴沥 | to drip (of rainwater) | |
| 淅沥 | (onom.) patter of rain |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 历 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 历 sound part | history; calendar | |
| 雳 | thunderclap, crashing thunder | |
| 枥 | oak tree; a stable | |
| 疬 | scrofulous swellings or lumps | |
| 呖 | the sound of something cracking or splitting | |
| 坜 | drain, ditch, channel | |
| 苈 | magnolia; Drabanemerosa hebecarpa |