Lì Dàoyuán xiě le zhùmíng de dìlǐ zhùzuò 《 Shuǐjīng Zhù 》.
Li Daoyuan wrote the famous geographical work Commentary on the Waterways Classic.
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history
郦 is not a common word in modern Chinese; it is a rare surname and an old place name. It uses 丽 for the sound with the right-side city radical 阝, which marks place and clan names — the same right 阝 seen in 都 and 郑.
culture
The famous bearer is 郦道元, the Northern Wei geographer whose 《水经注》 is a landmark of classical Chinese geography.
Right-side city radical 阝, the standing form of 邑. On the right it marks places and the clan names that come from them, which is exactly how 郦 is used.
