咧

lie / liě / liē
particle #8,868

Meanings

  1. 1 sentence-final particle expressing affirmation or exclamation

Examples

HSK 1
Chīfàn lie!
Dinner's ready!
HSK 4
Hǎo lie! jiāogěi wǒ ba.
Sure thing! Leave it to me.

Tips

register
As a neutral-tone lie the character is a colloquial, regional sentence-final particle close to 了 or 啦, common in northern speech as a cheerful 'will do!' 好咧. It is informal and does not appear in formal writing.

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
Left mouth radical, a small square picturing parted lips. It indexes 咧 in the speech-and-mouth family: 喊, 叫, 吃. Here it specifically marks the lips being pulled wide into a grin.
phonetic
列 liè
row; line up
Right side 列 supplies the sound: liè drifting to liě in 咧嘴. The same phonetic powers 烈, 裂, 例. Faint semantic flavour too: when you grin your teeth show in a tidy 'row' under stretched lips.

Stroke Order

咧 lie