里面 (lǐ miàn): meaning and stroke order
里面 (lǐ miàn) means inside, interior, also pr., variant of 里面.
里面
- Simplified
- 里面
- Traditional
- 裡面, 裏面
- Pinyin
- lǐ miàn
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Stroke order of 里面
里
- lǐ variant of 裡|里[li3]
- lǐ lining; interior
- Lǐ Li (surname)
- 7 strokes
- Traditional form: 裏
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面
- miàn face; side
- miàn variant of 麵|面[mian4]
- miàn flour; noodles
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 麪
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Meaning of 里面
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lǐ miàn
Traditional 裡面
- inside
- interior
- also pr. [li3 mian5]
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lǐ miàn
Traditional 裏面
- variant of 裡面|里面[li3 mian4]
Radicals of the characters
- 里
- Radical 里 (Kangxi radical 166) · 7 strokes · built from 日 and 土
- 面
- Radical 面 (Kangxi radical 176) · 9 strokes · 丆 on top, 囬 below
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.
里面 in our stories
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赵乐笑了笑：“没关系，我坐里面就行。”
Zhào Lè xiào le xiào méi guānxi wǒ zuò lǐmiàn jiù xíng
Zhao Le smiles: "No problem, I'll take the inside seat."
From the story The train to Xi'an HSK 3
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韩冰笑得停不下来：“别怕，里面是牛肉，没有人！”
Hán Bīng xiào de tíng bú xiàlai bié pà lǐmiàn shì niúròu méiyǒu rén
Han Bing can't stop laughing: "Don't worry, it's beef. No people!"
From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3
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他打开一看，里面的沙发只有手机那么大！
tā dǎkāi yí kàn lǐmiàn de shāfā zhǐ yǒu shǒujī nàme dà
He opened it: the sofa inside was the size of a mobile phone!
From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4
Stories using 里面
- The train to Xi'an HSK 3
- "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3
- The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4
- Twelve hours apart HSK 4
- Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5
- Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
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).