TSUMUGU · TOCFL 2 (est.) · 字
麗
麗 ＝ 鹿 ＋ 丽
ㄌㄧˋ · lì
adj — beautiful, lovely; (literary) paired, matched
字源 FORM — what the parts do
丽聲lí — a matched pair, side by side, two of the same hung together; also the sound donorthe doubled top of the graph, lí → 麗 lì
A deer (鹿) below, and above it the matched pair 丽 — two like things side by side. The old graph carries two tellings: a deer's pair of antlers, branching in symmetry; or, in 說文, deer that move in pairs (旅行). Either way the eye lands on two-matched-and-fine, and from the matched pair comes 美麗、華麗 — beautiful, ornate.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
一隻鹿（鹿）抬頭，雙角（丽）對稱分開——好看。
A deer (鹿) lifts its head, the paired antlers (丽) branching in symmetry — a fine sight.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)成對、相麗— paired, matched
→美麗、華麗— beautiful, ornate常用
⇒富麗、壯麗— grand, splendid
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension