里

里 in English

lǐ noun HSK 1: 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

Measure word

家 jiā home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical... attested in use
房 fáng house; room; CL:間|间[jian1]; branch of an extended family; classifier for family members (or concubines) attested in use

Stroke order

Le caractère 里 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 里

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

“洞里发生了什么？我很好奇。”“我一点也不知道。”

"What's going on in the cave? I'm curious." "I have no idea."
“谁在车里？” “汤姆。”

"Who is in the car?" "Tom is."
「克里奥帕特拉」这个名字已经成为了美女的代名词。

The name "Cleopatra" has become a byword for a beautiful woman.
2010这个数字里有两个零。

There are two zeros in the number "2010."
Pierre电脑里有很多盗版软件。

Pierre has a lot of pirated software on his computer.
Tatoeba：我们这里有的句子比您岁数还大。

Tatoeba: We've got sentences older than you.
Tatoeba：这里的辩论比两只兔子在袜子里做爱还要激烈！

Tatoeba: Where debates are hotter than two rabbits making babies in a sock!
Tom在哪里出生的？

Where was Tom born?

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