力

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/力

Descendants

 * ㄌ

Glyph origin
– alternative interpretation, either an arm bending out from the side of the body, or a wooden plough.

Etymology
From + *-k (STEDT; ). Cognate with 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬. A causative derivative is.

also suggests an etymological connection with.

Definitions

 * 1) physical strength; physical power; energy
 * 2) force; strength; power
 * 3)  force
 * 4) ability; capability
 * 5) power and influence; might
 * 6)  to make an effort; to strive; to endeavor; to work hard
 * 7) with all one's might; doing all in one's power
 * : Li
 * 1) ability; capability
 * 2) power and influence; might
 * 3)  to make an effort; to strive; to endeavor; to work hard
 * 4) with all one's might; doing all in one's power
 * : Li
 * 1)  to make an effort; to strive; to endeavor; to work hard
 * 2) with all one's might; doing all in one's power
 * : Li
 * : Li
 * : Li

Synonyms








Descendants
Others:

Kanji

 * 1) power, force, strength

Etymology 1
From, ultimately from. Compound of elements 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) strength; power; force
 * 2)  force
 * 3) ability; capacity
 * 4) effort
 * : Strength

Derived terms

 * : a tensed leg; tensing one's legs; the traditional sumo stomp at the beginning of a match
 * : matching strength: a competition of strength; a sumo match
 * : a test of strength, a competition of strength
 * : a large stone used as a dumbbell for purposes of tests of strength
 * : with all one's strength, as hard as one can
 * : a very strong person
 * : help, assistance, aid

Etymology 2
From. The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing. Compare modern 🇨🇬 reading lik6.

Affix

 * 1) power, strength

Noun

 * 1) physical strength
 * 2)  capability, especially mystical power
 * 3)  the suchness of ability, one of the Ten Suchnesses in Mahayana Buddhism
 * 4) short for : a strong person
 * 5)  short for, : a rickshaw
 * 6)  a rickshaw operator's wages

Etymology 3
From, but apparently from a different source dialect or at a different time than. The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing. Compare reconstructed Middle Chinese reading or 🇨🇬 reading ryeok.

Only found in compounds and idioms in modern Japanese.

Affix

 * 1) strength, power

Etymology
From. Perhaps more specifically from.