例 (lì): example
例 (lì) is a Chinese character meaning “example.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 亻 (semantic) and 列 (phonetic). It ranks #547 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 例 person. Its radical form 亻 (person) appears in many related characters such as 人 (rén, person), 什 (shén, what), 今 (jīn, now).
Definitions
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Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 例
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 例如verb | lì rú | for example | 4 |
| 例子noun | lì zi | case | 4 |
| 例外verb/noun | lì wài | exception | 6 |
| 案例noun | àn lì | case (of fraud, hepatitis, international cooperation etc) | 6 |
| 比例noun | bǐ lì | proportion | 5 |
| 举例verb | jǔ lì | to give an example | 4 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 病例 | bìng lì | (medical) case |
| 条例 | tiáo lì | regulations |
| 惯例 | guàn lì | convention |
| 例行 | lì xíng | routine (task, procedure etc) |
| 先例 | xiān lì | precedent |
| 例行公事 | lì xíng gōng shì | routine business |
| 史无前例 | shǐ wú qián lì | (idiom) unprecedented in history |
| 破例 | pò lì | to make an exception |
| 下不为例 | xià bù wéi lì | not to be repeated |
| 特例 | tè lì | special case |
| 例假 | lì jià | legal holiday |
| 例会 | lì huì | regular meeting |
| 判例 | pàn lì | judicial precedent |
| 照例 | zhào lì | as a rule |
| 范例 | fàn lì | example |
例 appears in 65 compound words: 23 as the first character, 69 as the last, and 8 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 例 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
举个例子来说明,假设我们有十个员工需要培训。
Jǔ gè lìzi lái shuōmíng, jiǎshè wǒmen yǒu shí gè yuángōng xūyào péixùn.
To give an example, suppose we have ten employees who need training.
韩国瑜吁蓝委让军购条例付委 国民党:一定支持但不能浮滥编列
hán guó 瑜 xū lán wěi ràng jūn gòu tiáo lì fù wěi guó mín dǎng : yī dìng zhī chí dàn bù néng fú làn biān liè
Han Yu called on the Blue Committee to hand over the arms purchase regulations to the Kuomintang: We must support but not exaggerate the compilation
罕見病例 眼疾男打瘦瘦針 眼嚴重出血
hǎn 見 bìng lì yǎn jí nán dǎ shòu shòu 針 yǎn 嚴 chóng chū xiě
Rare case of a man with eye disease who received a slimming injection and severe bleeding from his eye
天價拖吊車引眾怒!張善政指示先訂自治條例:不縱容惡質業者
tiān 價 tuō diào 車 yǐn 眾 nù ! 張 shàn zhèng zhǐ shì xiān 訂 zì zhì 條 lì bù 縱 róng 惡 質 業 zhě
The sky-high price of the tow truck has caused public anger! Zhang Shanzheng instructed to formulate autonomous regulations first: do not condone malicious operators
新聞分析/史上首例 總統赴國會報告成局或破局?
xīn 聞 fēn xī shǐ shàng shǒu lì 總 統 fù 國 會 報 gào chéng jú huò pò jú ?
News Analysis: First of Its Kind—Will the President's Congressional Address Succeed or Fail?
...球加徵關稅至15% 回應最高院判決 另引例實施150日
. . . qiú jiā 徵 關 稅 zhì huí 應 zuì gāo yuàn pàn 決 lìng yǐn lì 實 shī rì
... Ball tariff increase to 15% in response to the Supreme Court ruling, another 150 days to implement the law.
可以举几个例子吗?
Kěyǐ jǔ jǐge lìzi ma?
Please give us some examples.
你能举例说明你的想法吗?
Nǐ néng jǔlì shuōmíng nǐ de xiǎngfǎ ma?
Could you make an example to reify your idea?
我们按例处罚了他。
Wǒmen àn lì chǔfá le tā.
We punished him according to the rules.
让我来给你举个例子吧。
Ràng wǒ lái gěi nǐ jǔ ge lìzi ba.
Let me give you an example.
Character Family
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