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Kanji Detail for 厲 - "whetstone, sharpen, intense, strive, encourage"
厲
- Meaning
厲 means "whetstone, sharpen, intense, strive, encourage."
Whetstone - A sharpening stone.
Sharpen - To grind; to polish.
Intense - Severe; strict.
Strive - To work hard; to endeavor.
Encourage - To spur on; to motivate.
Leprosy - Hansen's disease.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
whetstone; grind; sharpen; whet; encourage
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
whetstone; grind, sharpen; whet
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Li
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
whetstone; to grind, to sharpen, to whet
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A whetstone. Commonly written as 礪. | To sharpen. Such as 秣馬厲兵 (feeding horses and sharpening weapons). Hence encouragement is called 勉厲, 激厲, the meaning of cutting and polishing. Also written as 勵. | Fierce; intense. Such as 再接再勵, meaning fighting hard without slacking. Stern is also called 嚴厲. | Evil; cruel. Killing the innocent is called 厲. Brutal and without kindness is called 厲. Such as in posthumous titles, 厲王, 厲公. Also, evil ghosts are called 厲鬼. | Disease. Such as epidemic disease is called 夭厲. Policies that harm the people are called 厲民政策. | Crossing water with clothes on is called 厲. See (Book of Odes).
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