利 lì
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 禾 cereal, grain, rice 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
利率
lìlǜ
interest rate
Characters in this word
率 lǜ
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 玄 — deep, profound, abstruse
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 央行调高基准利率后，企业债务成本随之上升，投资计划被迫推迟。 Yāngháng tiáogāo jīzhǔn lìlǜ hòu, qǐyè zhàiwù chéngběn suízhī shàngshēng, tóuzī jìhuà bèipò tuīchí. After the central bank raised the benchmark interest rate, corporate debt costs rose accordingly, forcing investment plans to be postponed.
- 银行把存款利率调低了，存钱的人不太高兴。 Yínháng bǎ cúnkuǎn lìlǜ tiáodī le, cún qián de rén bú tài gāoxìng. The bank lowered deposit interest rates, and savers aren't very happy.
- 买房贷款的利率越低，每个月还的钱就越少。 Mǎi fáng dàikuǎn de lìlǜ yuè dī, měi ge yuè huán de qián jiù yuè shǎo. The lower the interest rate on a home loan, the less you repay each month.