| 力 | Lì | surname Li |
| 力 | lì | power / force / strength / ability / strenuously |
| 谐声 | xié shēng | combination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功[gong1], which has signific 力[li4] and phonetic 工[gong1] (also referred to as 形聲|形声[xing2 sheng1]) / (of words or characters) homophonous |