Chou Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Mouth (kǒu)
Character: li
Kangxi strokes: 10
Page 190, Entry 16
Jade Chapter (Yupian): Pronounced li (falling tone). Found in the Dharani Sutra.
Correctness Mastery (Zhengzitong): Represents the trailing sound at the end of a spoken phrase.
Also Correctness Mastery (Zhengzitong): Pronounced li (rising tone). In Yuan dynasty lyrics, it is used as a modal particle.
Also Correctness Mastery (Zhengzitong): According to Ming dynasty regulations, on the Winter Solstice, officials were gifted a box of sweets containing seven types, one of which was pine nut hailie. Zheng Yiwei states: This character is not recorded in various dictionaries, and it is currently unknown what hailie is.
According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is also pronounced mu. People in the Chu region use this term to describe deception, which is a misspelling of the character mo. See the entries for hei and mo for cross-references.