Reading
입 (ip) when it starts a word — see below.
Also read 입 (ip)
stand; let stand; establish, set
설 립seol rip
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 설 (seol) is the Korean for stand, and 립 (rip) is the reading. Say 설 립 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- ⽴ 117
- Beyond radical
- 0
- Mandarin
- lì
- Japanese on
- ritsu
- Japanese kun
- tatsu
두음법칙 · initial sound rule
This one changes shape at the start of a word.
The dictionary reading is 립, but South Korean spelling writes 입 when the character leads the word. Both are the same character; only the position differs.
Word-initial
입
立法 입법 ipbeop立身 입신 ipsin立場 입장 ipjang
Elsewhere in the word
립
起立 기립 girip分立 분립 bullip自立 자립 jarip
Vocabulary
Words that use 立
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
lawgiving, lawmaking
Character by character stand + law
Radical ⽴ · 117
Built on the same root.
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.