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千里 (qiān lǐ): meaning and stroke order

千里 (qiān lǐ) means a thousand miles, a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers), a long distance.

千里

Simplified
千里
Traditional
千里 (same form)
Pinyin
qiān lǐ

Stroke order of 千里

千

  • qiān thousand
  • qiān used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 韆

Stroke by stroke

里

  • lǐ variant of 裡|里[li3]
  • lǐ lining; interior
  • Lǐ Li (surname)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 裏

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 千里

  1. qiān lǐ
    • a thousand miles
    • a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers)
    • a long distance

Radicals of the characters

千
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 3 strokes
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.

千里 in our stories

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  • 可这两条大河的水，仍然不够他解渴。他又向北方的大泽跑去，那里的湖水方圆千里。

    kě zhè liǎng tiáo dàhé de shuǐ réngrán bú gòu tā jiěkě tā yòu xiàng běifāng de dàzé pǎo qù nàli de húshuǐ fāngyuán qiānlǐ

    But the water of these two great rivers still could not quench his thirst. He ran on towards the Great Marsh in the north, whose waters stretched a thousand li around.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 千里

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).