05051 Chinese character of 慄 and pronounce leot6

The Chinese character【慄】that I will teach you this time is a word that describes emotion or state, and is mainly used for the following meanings:

Fear or trembling.

You can refer to this for the pronunciation of the mentioned Chinese character.

Mandarin Pinyin of 【慄】:lì

Cantonese Jyutping of 【慄】:leot6

This section presents general background information on the Chinese character 【慄】︰

Here are some situations where you can use【慄】, for example:Describing a feeling or state , It means mainly fear or trembling .Because of the extensive meanings of Chinese characters, some intricate details and specialized uses might not be fully presented here.

【慄】exists independently, yet its interaction with other words enriches expressions, such as【戰慄、恐慄】(Mandarin Pinyin:zhàn lì 、kǒng lì/ Cantonese Jyutping:zin3 leot6 、hung2 leot6)

It takes 13 strokes to write this character,It is a highly difficult Chinese character that is rarely used in daily life and has a lower frequency of usage,Here is a sentence demonstrating the use of this character.:


他因恐慄而不敢向前邁步。

He was too frightened to take a step forward.


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