里 (lǐ): meaning and stroke order
里 (lǐ) means lining, interior, inside, internal, also written 里, Li (surname).
里
- Simplified
- 里
- Traditional
- 裡, 里, 裏
- Pinyin
- lǐ
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Stroke order of 里
里
- lǐ variant of 裡|里[li3]
- lǐ lining; interior
- Lǐ Li (surname)
- 7 strokes
- Traditional form: 裏
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Meaning of 里
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lǐ
Traditional 裡
- lining
- interior
- inside
- internal
- also written 裏|里[li3]
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Lǐ
- Li (surname)
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lǐ
- li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
- neighborhood
- ancient administrative unit of 25 families
- (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
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lǐ
Traditional 裏
- variant of 裡|里[li3]
Radical and structure
- 里
- Radical 里 (Kangxi radical 166) · 7 strokes · built from 日 and 土
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 里
- 公里 gōng lǐ kilometer
- 家里 jiā lǐ home
- 心里 xīn li chest; heart; mind
- 里面 lǐ miàn inside; interior
- 千里 qiān lǐ a thousand miles; a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers)
- 夜里 yè li during the night; at night
- 那里 nà li there; that place
- 村里 cūn lǐ village; hamlet
- 这里 zhè lǐ here
- 哪里 nǎ lǐ where?; somewhere
- 不远千里 bù yuǎn qiān lǐ make light of traveling a thousand li; go to the trouble of traveling a long distance
- 里程碑 lǐ chéng bēi milestone
里 in our stories
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包里没有他的书。
bāo lǐ méiyǒu tā de shū
His books are not in the bag.
From the story Not my bag HSK 1
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家里有很多人！
jiā lǐ yǒu hěn duō rén
There are lots of people at home!
From the story Happy birthday HSK 1
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他看了桌子上、床上，还看了书包里，都没有。
tā kàn le zhuōzi shàng chuáng shàng hái kàn le shūbāo lǐ dōu méiyǒu
He looks on the table, on the bed and in his bag; it isn't anywhere.
From the story Where's my phone? HSK 2
Where you learn it
里 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 里
- Not my bag HSK 1
- Happy birthday HSK 1
- Where's my phone? HSK 2
- Making dumplings HSK 2
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- The noise upstairs HSK 3
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).