Character Details
| in; inside; Chinese mile; {village} | Ascii: 20197 | w489 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 里 | lǐ | lee | 3 | 田 (field) + 土 (earth) → inside; village | 里 link | ||||||
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The li is a Chinese way of measuring the area of the GROUND underneath a RICE FIELD. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - neighborhood, half-kilometer, Also a common family name | |||||||||||
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| - How do I get there? | - How long to the airport by taxi from here | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 167 - 足 | zú | distinguish | foot | foot shape | 足 路 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 田 (field) + 土 (earth) → inside; village | 里 (semantic) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||