麗

• Splendor and Adornment: Magnificence characterized by elegance, high status, or adornment (e.g., courtly splendor, fine textiles). This implies a constructed beauty rather than raw nature.
• Attachment and Clinging: To adhere to or cling to.

• As an adjective: Describes magnificence or elegance.
• As a verb: Meaning "clinging" or "adhering," frequently appears with the preposition 于.

Contrast with 儷 (companion/pair). While phonetically related, 麗 concerns quality (splendor) or action (clinging), whereas 儷 specifically denotes symmetry, pairing, or companionship.

• Readings: Encountered as both //lì// and //lèi//. The Tang-period reading //lèi// may be relevant in poetic contexts to satisfy rhyming or rhythmic patterns.
• Variant: U+4E3D (Simplified).

The glyph operates along two distinct semantic trajectories; the translator should first determine if the context is aesthetic (splendor) or physical/spatial (attachment).