里
Meanings
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- 1.surname Li
- 1.li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
- 2.neighborhood
- 3.ancient administrative unit of 25 families
- 4.(Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 镇[zhèn] and neighborhood 邻[lín] levels
- 1.variant of 里[lǐ]
- 1.lining
- 2.interior
- 3.inside
- 4.internal
- 5.also written 里[lǐ]
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Wiktionary
- 1.li (a unit of distance equal to half a kilometre in modern Mainland China)
- 2.neighbourhood (formal or informal grouping of adjacent dwellings; the size vary according to different historical sources)
- 3.urban village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)
- 4.village (an administrative unit in South Korea and North Korea)
- 5.lane (a type of road in Hong Kong)
- 6.a surname
- 7.Used in transcription.
- 8.Particle indicating the word preceding it is used as an adverb.
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 田 (“field”) + 土 (“soil; earth”) – a measure of land and fields; mile; place. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rwəʔ (“village”) (STEDT, under PTB *r/g-wa). Cognate with 丘 (OC *kʰʷɯ) "hill, mound" & 街 (OC *kreː, *kreː) "road crossing, street"; outsides Sinitic, cognate with Mizo khua (“village”), Lai khûa (“village, cosmos”), Burmese ရွာ (rwa, “village”); Schuessler (2007) also proposes cognacy with Tibetan ར་བ (ra ba, “fence, enclosure, wall, pen”) by pointing to a semantic parallel between English town and German Zaun (“fence”). Alternatively, possibly related to 理 (lǐ) "to divide into equal sections", yet Schuessler also noted that early Chinese villages were not systematically planned and platted.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
病房里很冷。
It was cold in the infirmary.
杯子里有水。
There is water in the glass.
房间里有人吗？
Was anyone in the room?
橱柜里有什么？
What's in the closet?
他在图书馆里。
He is in his library.
房间里有人吗？
Is anyone in the room?
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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