Hanja Analyzer
隸

隸 — rye

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
붙을 례, 종 례, 노비 례, 검열할 례
Romanization
rye
English
be subservient to; servant
Mandarin
lì
Japanese on'yomi
レイ, ライ, リ, レツ, レチ
Japanese kun'yomi
したが.う しもべ
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
17
Variant forms
隷
Radical
隶 (171, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+96B8

How 隸 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 隸 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 柰, 隶.

Other hanja read “례”

Other hanja with radical 隶

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