Chinese
利益
/li⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/
benefit; advantage; good; interest
- HSK 4
- TOCFL 5
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Lineage
- characterChinese利 “benefit; advantage”
- ideaChinese禾 “grain; cereal”
- ideaChinese刀 “knife; blade (Classifier: 把 m c g h j mb md w x; 張／张 c h; 叢／丛 mn; 支 mn mn-t)”
- characterChinese益 “original form of 溢 (yì, “to overflow”)”
- ideaChinese水 “water (Classifier: 瓶 m; 樽 c; 滴 m c; 池 m c; 盆 m c; 杯 m c)”
- ideaChinese皿 “dish; vessel”
Sources
- HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
- 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
- Written form — n/a
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0