Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- lí
English
- a pure black horse
- black horse
- a pair of horses
- jet steed
- good horse
- legendary black dragon
Variants
Words containing 驪
- 驪山lei4 saan1
Mt Li near Xi'an with the tomb of the First Emperor
- 探驪得珠taam3 lei4 dak1 zyu1
to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation)
- 句驪河geoi3 lei4 ho4
pre-Han name of Liao River 遼河|辽河[Liao2 He2]
- 驪黃牝牡lei4 wong4 pan5 maau5
a black stallion or possibly a yellow mare (idiom); don't judge by outward appearance
- 驪姬之亂lei4 gei1 zi1 lyun6
Li Ji Rebellion in 657-651 BC, where concubine Li Ji tried to throne her son but was eventually defeated by Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1]
- 牝牡驪黃pan5 maau5 lei4 wong4
a black stallion or possibly a yellow mare (idiom); don't judge by outward appearance