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里

裡traditional

HSK 1#75 by frequencyradical 里

Lǐ["f","q"]

inside; interior; internal; lining; also written 里; li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 镇 and neighborhood 邻 levels

lǐ

lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[li3]

Examples

你住哪里?

Where do you live?

鱼在海里。

The fish are in the sea.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.