歷

It conveys meanings such as “to pass,” “to undergo,” or “to attend/visit.”

In ancient times, the character was a compound ideograph formed from 止 (to stop) and 林 (forest) or 止 (to stop) and 禾 (grain). It represented the idea that someone stopped near a forest (林) or grain field (禾).

However, currently, the character is a phono-semantic compound consisting of the semantic component 止 (to stop) and the phonetic component 厤 (to manage, pronounced lì).