Component 历 walk through the woods

历, originally meant: walk through the woods. 厉 serves as phonetic component to form characters. 


In modern Chinese, 历 means:

1.to go through or experience
2.successively taking place in the past
3.the calendar
4.a calendar
5.an era; an age,
6.to calculate; to count

Characters formed by the phonetic component 历

沥 坜 枥 呖 疬 苈 雳 the same pronunciation