裡

See also: 裏 and 里

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 衣 + phonetic 里

Han character

裡 (radical 145 衣+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中田土 (LWG), four-corner 3621₄, composition ⿰衤里)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1118, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34295
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3094, character 3
• Unihan data for U+88E1

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Chinese

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trad.		裡/裏
simp.		里

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǐ (li³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁵, leoi⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ):
• Min Nan (POJ): lí / lin / nih / ni̍h
• Wu (WT Romanisation): li (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: lih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lii
    • IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lei⁵, leoi⁵
    • Yale: léih, léuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁵, loei⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /lei̯¹³/, /lɵy̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lí / lin / nih / ni̍h
    • Tâi-lô: lí / lin / nih / ni̍h
    • IPA (Taipei): /li⁴¹/, /lin⁴⁴/, /niʔ³²/, /niʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /li⁵³/, /lin³⁴/, /niʔ³²/, /niʔ¹²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: li (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /li²³/

Old Chinese pronunciation (裡, reconstructed)

Definitions

裡

1. in, inside

   誰在這房間裡？ [MSC, trad.]

   谁在这房间里？ [MSC, simp.]

   Shéi zài zhè fángjiān lǐ? [Pinyin]

   Who is inside this room?

2. place

   這裡／这里 ("here"), 那裡／那里 ("there"), 哪裡／哪里 ("where")

3. inside, interior, within

See also

• 里

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Japanese

Kanji

裡

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: り (ri)
• Kun: うら (ura), うち (uchi)

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Korean

Hanja

裡 (ri, i) (hangeul 리, 이, McCune-Reischauer ri, i, Yale li, i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

裡 (lý, lí)

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